“Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.”
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Robert Byrne4
American chess player and writer 1928–2013Related quotes
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
[8, 73, 47](Previous Reference for link only. Correct Ref: Bukhari Vol.8 Book78 Hadith6018)
Sunni Hadith
François Arago (1786–1853) French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician
"The History of My Youth", p. 55.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men (1859)
Context: I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
The Art Eternal, New York Evening Mail (1918)
1910s
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
February 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/world/middleeast/17mccain.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin <br class="br">2000s, 2008
“Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”
John Buchan book The Power-House
Source: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 2 "I First Hear Of Mr Andrew Lumley"
Fanny Fern (1811–1872) American writer
Source: 1854, Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, Second series, Hungry Husbands. Often quoted as The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Also quoted in Chambers dictionary of Quotations, p. 321