A Quote by Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe
English - Journalist
1660 - 1731

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, By wit we govern all our actions; Wit is the loadstar of each human thought, Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

Robert Greene

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

Benjamin Franklin

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

Mason Cooley

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

Voltaire

Just because people starve in a book, doesn't mean that we will starve in the future.

Suzanne Collins

At one point I'm doing belly-dancing, big mirror-ball in me belly button with couple of tassels and me head on fire and I thought, 'I could lose two stone.'

Dave Myers

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

When the secretary of treasury, the head of the central bank, the head of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), and the head of the New York Fed say, "We want you to do this because we think it's in the best interest of the United States of America," you know, we're like the Japanese. We're a little patriotic that way. We said, "Yes, sir!"

Jamie Dimon

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

Austin O'Malley

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Archibald MacLeish

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

Karl Shapiro

This is quite difficult 'cause I have a really flat head, and so it's quite difficult to get a correct angle. And you can't go up from down below as well, 'cause I've got, like, rock solid gelled hair. And so, like, it was odd. I don't know, sometimes I feel like my head is being, like, turned inside out. Like that episode of Ren & Stimpy when he's inside his own belly button. I don't know.

Robert Pattinson

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.

Woody Allen

Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'

Elayne Boosler

Wouldn’t it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, “Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub”.

Elayne Boosler

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