Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 5.
“2569. Hunger is the best Sauce.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1750) : Hunger is the best Pickle.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 2534. Honesty is the best Policy.
“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Source: The Eye of the World
“For hunger is a sauce, well blended and prepared, for any food.”
Chrétien de Troyes French poet and trouvère
Qu'a toz mangiers est sausse fains
Bien destanpree et bien confite.
Source: Yvain or Le Chevalier au Lion, Line 2854
“… freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
“Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian
The History of the Holy War (1639), Book I, Ch. 24.
“Hunger is the best seasoning.”
Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth
Source: The Pillars of the Earth
“What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 37.
“4070. Sauce for a Goose, is Sauce for a Gander.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
