English Proverb or Saying Quotes

Full stomachs don't believe empty ones.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Nature is rich; but everywhere man, the heir of nature, is poor. Never in this happy country or elsewhere except in the Land of Miracle, where "they did all eat and were filled"-has there been enough of anything for the people. Never since time began have all the sons and daughters of men been all warm, and all filled, and all shod and roofed.

Lord, give bread to the hungry, and hunger … to those who have bread.

I did everything I wanted to when I had nothing.

When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.

[On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for.