Hunger is not dainty. [ Proverb ]
Hunger is a good cook. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Hunger is never delicate. [ Dr. John ]
Hunger is the best sauce. [ Proverb ]
Hunger that tempts to evil. [ Virgil ]
A dog's life, hunger and ease. [ Proverb ]
Hunger is sharper than the sword. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Hunger cannot bear contradiction. [ Proverb ]
Winter thunder bodes summer hunger. [ Proverb ]
Hunger makes raw beans relish well. [ Proverb ]
O cursed hunger of pernicious gold! [ Dryden ]
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds! [ Spenser ]
Surfeit has killed more than hunger. [ Proverb ]
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hunger will break through stone walls. [ Proverb ]
They that die by famine die by inches. [ Matthew Henry ]
Hunger was the best seasoning for meat. [ Cicero ]
Bearing a lifelong hunger in his heart. [ Tennyson ]
Cruel as death and hungry as the grave. [ Thomson ]
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. [ Proverb ]
Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods. [ Proverb ]
Every morsel to a satisfied hunger
Is only a new labor to a tired digestion. [ South ]
Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy. [ Proverb ]
Hunger is not satisfied with wise sentences. [ Proverb ]
Famished people must be slowly nursed,
And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. [ Byron ]
Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger. [ Zimmermann ]
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.
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. [ Byron ]
Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. [ German Proverb ]
In the land of promise a man may die of hunger. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Why does man hunger so much after forbidden fruit? [ Ovid ]
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than hunger. [ Jean Paul ]
They that lie down for love should rise for hunger. [ Proverb ]
Hunger and delay stir up one's bile (in the nostrils). [ Proverb ]
They must hunger in winter, that will not work in summer. [ Proverb ]
Hunger is the teacher of the arts, and the bestower of invention. [ Persius ]
Hunger scarce kills any, but gluttony and drunkenness multitudes. [ Proverb ]
I never saw a man die of hunger, but thousands die of overfeeding. [ Spanish Proverb ]
It is a wonderful subduer - this need of love, this hunger of the heart. [ George Eliot ]
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. [ Bible ]
Hunger makes everything sweet except itself, for want is the teacher of habits. [ Antiphanes ]
The belly (i.e. hunger or necessity) is the teacher of arts and the bestower of genius. [ Pers ]
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [ Seneca ]
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. [ Bible ]
Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. [ Fielding ]
To have any chance of lasting, a book must satisfy, not merely some fleeting fancy of the day, but a constant longing and hunger of human nature. [ Lowell ]
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. [ George Eliot ]
Pale, Pallid, or Wan? All these terms denote an absence of color, but vary in degree, pallid rising upon pale, and wan upon pallid. Paleness in the countenance may be temporary, but pallidness and wanness are caused by sickness, hunger, or fatigue, and are of longer duration. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise. [ Cervantes ]
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire? [ Thackeray ]