
“The best sauce in the world is hunger.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 5.
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1750) : Hunger is the best Pickle.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 2534. Honesty is the best Policy.
“The best sauce in the world is hunger.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 5.
“For hunger is a sauce, well blended and prepared, for any food.”
Qu'a toz mangiers est sausse fains
Bien destanpree et bien confite.
Source: Yvain or Le Chevalier au Lion, Line 2854
“Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.”
The History of the Holy War (1639), Book I, Ch. 24.
“What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.”
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 37.
“4070. Sauce for a Goose, is Sauce for a Gander.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)