“Worry is the stomach's worst poison.”
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Alfred Nobel16
Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer 1833–1896Related quotes
Graham Greene book The End of the Affair
Variant: Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Source: The End of the Affair
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Variant: Wilem looked at me 'Why are you smiling?'
"I'm relieved", I said honestly." I was worried I had given myself cadmium poisoning, or had a mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Quote of Breton, from the Introduction of his 'Manifesto du Surréalisme', Andre Breton, 1924
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
“3895. Poor men seek meat for their Stomach; rich Men Stomach for their Meat.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
C'est une plaisante chose que la pensée dépende absolument de l'estomac, et malgré cela les meilleurs estomacs ne soient pas les meilleurs penseurs.
Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert (20 August 1770)
Citas
“There is no subordination with empty stomachs.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
As attributed in Count Emmanuel de Las Cases, “Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena”, 1824.
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