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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.]
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
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.]
Oliver Twist has asked for more.
Oliver Twist has asked for more.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
Enough is as good as a feast.
Enough is as good as a feast.
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.