“A hungry stomach cannot hear.”

We are never content with our lot.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

By the work one knows the workman.

We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

I bend and do not break.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.

Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.

Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.

A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

You know that old saying, ‘A way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’ – that’s me.

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.