Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.

My hunger is always there.

The appetite comes as you eat.

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

I'm not picky. When I'm hungry, I eat.

Man is born to eat.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

I eat to survive, you know?

I'm always hungry. I can be better always.

I don't really get hungry that much. Sometimes I get cravings for certain foods. But I can go all day without eating.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."

Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.