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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.]
The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius.
[Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]
The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius.
[Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.
It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.