“The people are patient, but the stomach cannot wait too long.”
Soong Ching-ling (1893–1981) Sun Yat-Sen's wife, Honorary President of the People's Republic of China (1893-1981)
Djakarta Dispatches https://books.google.com/books?id=R8oAbRp1gVsC&pg=RA35-PP15&lpg=RA35-PP15&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false (1960)
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
Writing for the court, Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 (1952). The unanimous decision reversed the conviction of an alleged drug addict because evidence was obtained by forced stomach pumping.
Judicial opinions
“A hungry stomach cannot hear.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Book IX (1678–1679), fable 18.
Fables (1668–1679)
“Human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.”
David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas
"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 286
Cloud Atlas (2004)
Eric Hoffer book The True Believer
Section 10
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements
“As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Indro Montanelli (1909–2001) Italian journalist
Quando mi viene in mente un bell'aforisma, lo metto in conto a Montesquieu, od a La Rochefoucauld. Non si sono mai lamentati. <br class="br">cited in Mai dette, ma le ripetiamo sempre Ecco le frasi fantasma della storia http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mai-dette-ripetiamo-sempre-ecco-frasi-fantasma-storia.html by Luigi Mascheroni, in il Giornale, 21 March 2009, p. 22. <br class="br">2000s - 2010s
