“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
“Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.”
Gibraltar Falls (p. 118)
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“Man can not live by bread alone… he must have peanut butter.”
“Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.”
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769)
Source: Introduction, Section II: Of the Nature of Laws in General
Sacris Solemniis Juncta Sint Gaudia (Matins hymn for Corpus Christi), stanza 6 (Panis Angelicus)
Context: Thus Angels' Bread is made
The Bread of man today:
The Living Bread from Heaven
With figures doth away:
O wondrous gift indeed!
The poor and lowly may
Upon their Lord and Master feed.
An argosy of fables, p. 242
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami
“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”
Speech in Denver, Colorado (5 September 1952)