“Cold comfort to fill their hungry stomach.”
William Bradford (1590–1657) English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymouth Colony (1590-1657)
Ch. 5.
“A hungry stomach cannot hear.”
Book IX (1678–1679), fable 18.
Fables (1668–1679)
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Sadao Araki (1877–1966) Japanese general
Quoted in "They Shall Inherit the Earth" - Page 55 - by Otto Zoff, Anne Garrison - 1943
Uwais al-Qarani (594–657) Muslim saint
Biography of Uways al-Qarni https://islamqa.info/en/answers/125276/biography-of-uways-al-qarni-may-allah-have-mercy-on-him, Islam Q&A https://islamqa.info/en/about-us (03 July 2015)
“The people are patient, but the stomach cannot wait too long.”
Soong Ching-ling (1893–1981) Sun Yat-Sen's wife, Honorary President of the People's Republic of China (1893-1981)
Djakarta Dispatches https://books.google.com/books?id=R8oAbRp1gVsC&pg=RA35-PP15&lpg=RA35-PP15&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false (1960)
“When the mind is busy, the stomach cannot complain of hunger too.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
Writing for the court, Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 (1952). The unanimous decision reversed the conviction of an alleged drug addict because evidence was obtained by forced stomach pumping.
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John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
Stanza 7
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
Context: Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm’d magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
“calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear…”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
