When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. — St. Jerome
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body. — Saadi Shirazi
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body. — Saadi Shirazi
Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion — Burt Lancaster
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands. — Ivan Pavlov
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within. — Paracelsus
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting — Benjamin Franklin
Fasting during domestic flights helps maintain energy levels; diverting oxygen from the brain to digestion during flights can exhaust the body. — Gary Brecka
Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands. — Ivan Pavlov
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. — St. Jerome
You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears — Greek Proverbs
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. — William Cobbett
We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food. — Jocko Willink
Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able. — Ovid
Short Empty Stomach Quotes
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. — Euripides
One piece of food while hungry equals a big box of food while full. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Stress can send your digestive system into overdrive. — Gary Brecka
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. — Lao Tzu
Don’t eat anything within three to four hours of bedtime. — Valter Longo
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. — Mark Twain
Hungry wailing standeth not aloof. — Aeschylus
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. — Saadi Shirazi
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. — Winston Churchill
Empty Stomach Image Quotes
Empty Minds Make The Most Noise!
When Your Stomach Is Empty Quotes
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should. — Rumi
Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty. — Nelson Mandela
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you and you can feel how pure and innocent it is, so much that it makes your stomach feel empty - probably 'cause you realize you used to be pure like that, too, and now you're not. — Matt de la Pena
Without Food Quotes
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise — David Fairchild
If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven. — St. Jerome
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. — Leo Tolstoy
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A party without cake is really just a meeting. — Julia Child
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast. — Edith Wharton
One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. — Robert A. Heinlein
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
You wouldn't go very long without eating food; don't let your spirit starve either. Feed on the Word of God every day. — Victoria Osteen
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor. — Ambrose Bierce
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. — W. L. George
Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running. — Joe Bastianich
Full Stomach Quotes
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. — Jerome K. Jerome
Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow. — Conrad Anker
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful that you have a glass, and there is something in it.
If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much. — Guy Fieri
She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say. — Helen Hodgman
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. — Alan Watts
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, than, is an empty desk a sign?
The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and which alone can keep it pure, and give tone and vigor to every part of the living machinery. — Ellen G. White
When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body. — Candace Cameron Bure
The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach. — Mark Hart
You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?" — Pam Brown
You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet. — William Booth
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery. — Norman Borlaug
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. — Woodrow Wilson
Without music, life would be a mistake.
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods." — Mary Elizabeth Lease
Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you — Stephenie Meyer
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put it in the teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. — Woodrow Wilson
I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills. — Emo Philips
To a man with an empty stomach food is God — Mahatma Gandhi
Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach. — Hippocrates
The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach. — Ibrahim Babangida
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. — Albert Einstein
But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty. — Nelson Mandela
No man can be wise on an empty stomach. — George Eliot
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation. — Wilfred Burchett
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. — William Cowper
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog. — Robert Falcon Scott
Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath. — J. R. R. Tolkien
The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness. — Terence McKenna
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong. — Vivien Leigh
When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath
Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little. — Daniel Gilbert
It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers. — James Payn
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] — Horace
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable. — St. Jerome
There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . . — Rumi
Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks. — Alex Pacheco
Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable. — Terence McKenna
When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves. — Y. C. James Yen
I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach. — Clay Allison
I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach. — Carole Landis
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me. — Veronica Roth
We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger. — Trevor Noah
Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach. — Kin Hubbard
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. — Woodrow Wilson
There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. — Rumi
A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty. — Evan Esar
I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown — Cassandra Clare
This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom. — J. K. Rowling
Note to self on waking. Lay off the beer on an empty stomach. This dream is even more screwed up than the time I had a donkey and a corkscrew. (Aiden) Donkey and a corkscrew? (Leta) I don’t know you well enough to fill you in on those details. (Aiden) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking. — Tom Hodgkinson
In the Lords prayer, the first petition is for daily bread; no one can worship God, or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. — Woodrow Wilson
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