Portuguese Proverb Quotes

Empty stomachs have no ears.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

The hungry man does not hear.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

A hungry stomach has no ears.

It's an awful feeling, being hungry.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

A hungry man is an angry one.

Saints don't fill the belly.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

No agitation for political reforms could be carried on by a plague-stricken and starving people. Food was what they needed and most urgently demanded. The political argument died away, drowned in cries and petitions for relief, lost in weepings and wailings for the victims who were perishing in hundreds by the roadsides, in the fields, and in their bare and empty houses.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

Hunger is not debatable.

Believe me, there's nothing I hate more than feeling hungry.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Hunger allows no choice.