Conrad Anker
Climber, Author
"Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow."
Stomach quotes
Stomach
112 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"A hungry stomach cannot hear."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach."
Boris Pasternak
Poet, Novelist
"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
Confucius
Philosopher
"Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach."
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"Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach."
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"The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance."
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"Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers."
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"A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little."
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"Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal."
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"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."
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"Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach."
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"Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach."
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"That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body."
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"Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach."
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"You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt."
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"It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling."
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"There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness."
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"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
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"I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place."
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"Life is about fulfillment. If your life isn't fulfilled, your stomach can never supply what's missing."
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"A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society."
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"You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense."
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"The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can."
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"My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart."
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