quotations about the belly
A full stomach is the Mother of all Evil.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1744
The belly is not filled with fair words.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Works
Promises don't fill the belly.
C.H. SPURGEON
Ploughman's Pictures
What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the Devil's belly.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Works
How many men are kept busy to humor a single belly!
SENECA
Epistulae ad Lucilium
A gross belly does not produce a refined mind.
ST. JEROME
attributed, The Home Book of Quotations
The belly is like a spoiled baby; give me, give me, give me.
R. FREDERICK CAPITOLIN
Your God Is Your Belly!
The belly carries the legs, and not the legs the belly.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote