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“Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.”

Ifs Men Want Home Empty Spread Great Men Deceit Coming Home Thick Flattery Belly Darling Purses

Book:The School of Whoredom

Source: The School of Whoredom

“The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.”

Men Feels Stills Animal Brain He Man Eating Empty Emptiness Urges Stomach Belly Gratification

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].”

Should Mind Body Imagination Poor Wonder Praying Creatures Empty Enjoyment Terrified Belly Plight Empty Heads

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?”

Source: Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments

“Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.”

Ifs Mind Soul Body Empty Belly Loaded Bursting Empty Souls

Author:Saadi

“Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.”

People Knows Littles Enough Problem Bigs Planets Mouths Empty Abuse Greed Incredibles Ghost Hungry Buddhist Belly

Author:Alice Walker

“Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.”

Empty Weak Legs Tongue Belly Glitter Swollen Sharp Tongue

Author:Mao Zedong

“Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a sense of satisfaction as she realized that they would eat well today. Amazing how an empty belly could change your perspective, she thought.”

Wells Might Today Felt Perspective Bird Empty Satisfaction Cruelty Belly

Author:John Flanagan

“I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.”

Want Joy Love You Cry Flow Empty Bottom Honey Meaningless Primitive Belly Leaving Me Piercings Inarticulate I Want To Love You

Author:Anais Nin