A Quote by Plutarch

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Plutarch

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Plutarch
Greek - Philosopher
46 - 120

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

Marcus Porcius Cato

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

Pericles

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Cato the Elder

My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

Francois Hollande

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

Alan Dershowitz

The belly has no ears.

Plutarch

It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again.

Farah Khan

When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life, then it is that I run with joy to the great and imperfect ones, their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.

Henry Miller

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

Beatrice Webb

Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.

Jacob Zuma

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

Jerry Moran

The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.

Francois Rabelais

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

Chinua Achebe

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.