“The best sauce in the world is hunger.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 5.
“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.
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English churchman and historian 1608–1661Related quotes
“2569. Hunger is the best Sauce.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
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.
“We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) second president of Egypt
As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (14 November 1969)
“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
Source: Desert Solitaire
“… freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women
Colin Moulding (1955) English bassist, songwriter and vocalist
"Sacrificial Bonfire"
Skylarking (1986)
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter X · Terrain
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) Norwegian painter and printmaker
a written note; as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 41
after 1930
Ziggy Marley (1968) Jamaican musician
“Ziggy Marley,” interview with Peta2 (20 July 2011) https://www.peta2.com/news/ziggy-marley/.
