The belly has no ears. [ Plutarch ]
A hungry belly has no ears. [ Proverb ]
An empty belly hears nobody. [ Proverb ]
Fair words fill not the belly. [ Proverb ]
The belly hates a long sermon. [ Proverb ]
The eye is bigger than the belly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The eyes are larger than the belly. [ German Proverb ]
He eats the calf in the cow's belly. [ Proverb ]
The belly that is full may well fast. [ Proverb ]
The hungry belly thinks the throat cut. [ Proverb ]
A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. [ Proverb ]
That is good sport that fills the belly. [ Proverb ]
Better belly burst than good drink lost. [ Proverb ]
A full belly neither fights nor flies well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
And by his side rode loathsome gluttony.
Deformed creature, on a filthy swine;
His belly was up-blown with luxury,
And eke with fatness swollen were his eyne. [ Spenser ]
Your belly will never let your back be warm. [ Proverb ]
Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly. [ Proverb ]
When the belly is full, the bones are at rest. [ Proverb ]
It is a good hunting-bout that fills the belly. [ Proverb ]
It is easier to fill a glutton's belly than his eye. [ Proverb ]
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly. [ Haliburton ]
A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly. [ Proverb ]
Water breeds frogs in the belly; but wine kills worms. [ Proverb ]
If it were not for the belly, the back might wear gold. [ Proverb ]
He whose belly is full believes not him whose is empty. [ Proverb ]
Whose god is their belly and whose glory is their shame. [ Bible ]
Misers put their back and their belly into their pocket. [ Proverb ]
It is difficult to speak to the belly because it has no ears. [ Plutarch ]
He that is killed by a cannon was cursed in his mother's belly. [ Proverb ]
He's like a bagpipe, you never hear him till his belly is full. [ Proverb ]
What is gotten over the Devil's back, is spent under his belly. [ Proverb ]
He is sillier than a crab, that has all his brains in his belly. [ Proverb ]
Unjust gains may be sweet in the mouth, but will be bitter in the belly. [ Proverb ]
The epicure puts his purse into his belly; and the miser his belly into his purse. [ Proverb ]
The belly (i.e. hunger or necessity) is the teacher of arts and the bestower of genius. [ Pers ]
Shake a Liecestershire man by the collar, and you shall hear the beans rattle in his belly. [ Proverb ]
The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. [ Bible ]
But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. [ Saadi ]
It is the nature of man to be proud, when man by nature hath nothing to be proud of. He more adorneth the creature than he adoreth the Creator; and makes not only his belly his god, but his body. I am ashamed of their glory whose glory is their shame. If nature will needs have me to be proud of something, I will be proud only of this, that I am proud of nothing. [ Arthur Warwick ]