Stomach Quotes

• When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

  St. Jerome

  Food, Perspective, Catholic

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

  Voltaire

  Ideas, Spite, Thinker

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• To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Offering, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.187, Princeton University Press

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• The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

  Fanny Fern

  Sex, Food, Heart

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.32, Rutgers University Press

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• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Fitness, Food

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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• Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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• When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

  Enoch Powell

  Emotion, Score

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• A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

  St. Jerome

  Exercise, Saint, Fats

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• When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

  Euripides

  Money, Food, Men

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• The joy of being a consumer is that it doesnt require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

  Matt Taibbi

  Responsibility, Self, Joy

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• A hungry stomach cannot hear.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Hungry

  "Fables". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, Book IX, fable 18, 1668 - 1679.

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• An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

  Winston Churchill

  Kindness, Inspiration, Generosity

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• The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Want, Diets

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• The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

  Dick Powell

  Directors, Actors, Switching

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• He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

  Saadi

  God, Worship, Slave

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• For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.270, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

  Winona Ryder

  Broken Heart, Hate, Past

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• The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

  Jo Brand

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

  Douglas Horton

  Time, Desire, Three

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• You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Wine, Men

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Political, Politics

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• I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

  William Cobbett

  Agitation, Fellows, Agitate

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• Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.

  Lynn Margulis

  Self, Order, Years

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

  Joan Rivers

  Women, Memorable, Thighs

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