“When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.”

“I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace; walking until given shelter and fasting until given food.”

Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) American non-denominational spiritual teacher

“We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.”

Lauren Child (1965) author and illustrator especially known for Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean, and My Uncle is a Hunkle

“God has given to Man an absolute right to take the lives of other animals, for any reasonable cause, such as the supply of food; but He has not given to Man the right to inflict pain, unless where necessary.”

Lewis Carroll book Sylvie and Bruno

“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out.”

William S. Burroughs book Naked Lunch

“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”

Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer

“We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.”

David Brin book Earth

“I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist