When the horse is starved, you bring him oats. [ Proverb ]

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Where curiosity is not the purveyor, detraction will soon be starved. [ Proverb ]

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. [ Colton ]

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

O cursed lust of gold; when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds, First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. [ Blair ]

All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. [ Sir W. Temple ]

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]