The stomach has no ears. [ Proverb ]
No man can be wise on an empty stomach. [ George Eliot ]
A surfeit or the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare ]
Surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
Rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words,
With better appetite. [ William Shakespeare ]
The hungry stomach rarely scorns plain fare. [ Horace ]
When a man sleeps his head is in his stomach. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Tasting so many dishes shows a dainty stomach. [ Seneca ]
You have lost your own stomach, and found a dog's. [ Proverb ]
If you swallow vice it will rise badly in your stomach. [ Proverb ]
Roughness may turn one's humor, but flattery one's stomach. [ Proverb ]
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. [ Proverb ]
Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge had stomach for them all. [ William Shakespeare ]
The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods. [ Hazlitt ]
Why, at this rate, a fellow that has but a groat in his pocket may have a stomach capable of a ten-shilling ordinary. [ Congreve ]
The Stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as the slave does. [ E. Souvestre ]
No part of diet, in any season, is so healthful, so natural, and so agreeable to the stomach, as good and well-ripened fruits. [ Sir W. Temple ]
It is strange that thought should depend upon the stomach, and still that men with the best stomachs are not always the best thinkers. [ Voltaire ]
A chine of honest bacon would please my appetite more than all the marrowpuddings, for I like them better plain, having a very vulgar stomach. [ Dryden ]
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition. [ From the French ]
A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. [ Swift ]
There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]