Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

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

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

No one has starved.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

It's an awful feeling, being hungry.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

Hunger is the best seasoning.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

To be hungry must be awful.

I am dying of hunger.

I have stopped at farm after farm where lean, underfed women and sickly men repeated again and again the same story—little food and no opportunity to get more.

The hungry man does not hear.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

We don't want a country populated by children feeding themselves from garbage dumps.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

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