quotations about the belly
The belly carries the legs, and not the legs the belly.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
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Don Quixote
Your belly will never let your back be warm.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
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
I say, whatever you maintain
Of Alma in the heart or brain,
The plainest man alive may tell ye
Her seat of empire is the belly.
From hence she sends out those supplies
Which make us either stout or wise;
The strength of every other member
Is founded on your belly-timber.
MATTHEW PRIOR
Alma
What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the Devil's belly.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Works
Promises don't fill the belly.
C.H. SPURGEON
Ploughman's Pictures
The belly is not filled with fair words.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Works