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Hunger: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Hunger is sharper than the sword.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Honest Man's Fortune. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 1.

Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.— JOHN BYROM — Epigram on Two

Monopolists. But man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto II. St. 67.

Famished people must be slowly nursed, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto II. St. 158.

Hunger was the best seasoning for meat.— CICERO — De Finibus. Bk. II. Pt. XXVIII. Yonge's trans.

They that die by famine die by inches.— MATHEW HENRY — Commentaries.

Psalm LIX. Our stomachs Will make what's homely savoury.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 6. L. 32.

They said they were an-hungry; sigh'd forth proverbs, That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat, That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not Corn for the rich men only with these shreds They vented their complainings.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 209.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 194. Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.— THOMSON — The Seasons. Winter. L. 393.

Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum esse famem, potionis sitim. I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.— CICERO — De Finibus Bonorum et

Malorum. II. 28. Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra. To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.— JUVENAL — Satira. V. 2.

Græculus esuriens in cœlum, jusseris, ibit. Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.— JUVENAL — Satiræ. III. 78.

Magister artis ingenique largitor venter. Hunger is the teacher of the arts, and the bestower of invention.— PERSIUS — Satira. Prologue. X.

Nec rationem patitur, nec æquitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens. A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.— SENECA — De Brevitate Vitæ. XVIII.

I. Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora cӕce, Noctis habent. Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.— OVID — Metamorphoses. VI. 472.

१. Quantum animis erroris inest! What ignorance there is in human minds.— OVID — Fasti. II. 789.

Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido. What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. III. 397.

S. Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris. Know not what you know, and see not what you see.— PLAUTUS — Miles Gloriosus. II. 6. 89.

Illi mors gravis incubat qui notus nimis omnibus ignotus moritur sibi. Death presses heavily on that man, who, being but too well known to others, dies in ignorance of himself.— SENECA — Thyestes. CCCCI.