Stomach Quotes

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

appetite hunger

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience. - Lady Blessington quote.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.
— Lady Blessington The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington,

conscience hunger

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
— Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil

hunger

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach. - Rex Stout quote.

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.
— Rex Stout Blood Will Tell

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