Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.

Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.

With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
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With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels, and this other's house,
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio read more

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem,
potionis sitim.]

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
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A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla
prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]

If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.

If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.

At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.

At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.