Francois Rabelais Quotes

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

Empty stomachs have no ears.

Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.

You can't eat compliments.

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

The belly has no ears.

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.

I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

Eager for bread and love.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.