If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

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.]

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.

They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs--
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
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They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs--
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds
They vented their complainings, which being answered
And a petition granted them, a strange one,
To break the heart of generosity,
And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,
Shouting their emulation.

They that die by famine die by inches.

They that die by famine die by inches.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., read more

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla
prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
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Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
But be it known to Skin and Bone
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.