Quotes with belly

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  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Georges Bernanos A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Jonathan Swift Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • André Gide Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Bennett Cerf For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Bennett Cerf For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • John Lennon He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Dylan Here's to Cisco an' Sonny an' Lead Belly too, an' to all the good people that traveled with you.
    Source: Bob Dylan (1962)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. Kevin Turner I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Cato the Elder It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Bob Kerrey Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Bil Keane Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Bernard Mandeville People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Ian Dury Sex is about as important as a cheese sandwich. But a cheese sandwich, if you ain't got one to put in your belly, is extremely important.
    Ian Dury
    British singer and bandleader (1942 - 2000)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ben Jonson Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin,
    Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXVIII, On Gut, lines 5-6.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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