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I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]
I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
They that die by famine die by inches.
They that die by famine die by inches.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.
Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio read more
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem,
potionis sitim.]
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
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With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels, and this other's house,
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.
