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Familiar Quotations

Stomach

The wine of Arpad Haraszthy has a bouquet all its own. It tickles and titillates the palate. It gurgles as it slips down the alimentary canal. It warms the cockles of the heart, and it burns the sensitive lining of the stomach.–Ambrose Bierce

Let me give you an anatomy lesson. This is my stomach. This is my heart. Stomach. Heart. Stomach. Heart.–Vampire in Brooklyn

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.–William Cowper

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.–Albert Einstein

A hungry stomach cannot hear.–Jean de La Fontaine

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.–Hermann Hesse

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.–Barbara Howar

Nice work. Great, Chewie, great. Always thinking with your stomach.–Return of the Jedi

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.–Saint Jerome

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.–Saint Jerome

• Preface vii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Stomach 1
• Stomach – "Accepting" 2
• Stomach – "Bear" 2
• Stomach – "Enduring" 3
• Stomach – "Stand" 3
• Stomach – "Suffer" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Stomach 4
• Stomach – "Accepting" 22
• Stomach – "Air" 23
• Stomach – "Animal" 24
• Stomach – "Armed" 24
• Stomach – "Attack" 26
• Stomach – "Being" 26
• Stomach – "Believe" 27
• Stomach – "Big" 27
• Stomach – "Blood" 28
• Stomach – "Body" 29
• Stomach – "Brain" 29
• Stomach – "Breath" 30
• Stomach – "Called" 31
• Stomach – "Case" 31
• Stomach – "Catch" 33
• Stomach – "Caused" 33
• Stomach – "Change" 35
• Stomach – "Child" 35
• Stomach – "Close" 36
• Stomach – "Cold" 37
• Stomach – "Conditions" 37
• Stomach – "Day" 38
• Stomach – "Deadly" 40
• Stomach – "Digestion" 41
• Stomach – "Dinner" 41
• Stomach – "Done" 42
• Stomach – "Don't" 42
• Stomach – "Doubt" 43
• Stomach – "Eat" 44
• Stomach – "Effect" 46
• Stomach – "Eyes" 46
• Stomach – "Feeling" 47
• Stomach – "Feet" 48
• Stomach – "Felt" 48
• Stomach – "Few" 49
• Stomach – "Food" 50
• Stomach – "Form" 53
• Stomach – "Found" 53
• Stomach – "Friend" 55
• Stomach – "Full" 56
• Stomach – "Gnawing" 57
• Stomach – "God" 57
• Stomach – "Going" 58
• Stomach – "Great" 59
• Stomach – "Hair" 61
• Stomach – "Hand" 61
• Stomach – "Having" 63
• Stomach – "Head" 64
• Stomach – "Healthy" 66
• Stomach – "Heart" 66
• Stomach – "Heavy" 68
• Stomach – "Home" 68
• Stomach – "Hours" 69
• Stomach – "Hung" 70
• Stomach – "Hungry" 70
• Stomach – "Intestines" 71
• Stomach – "Keep" 71
• Stomach – "Killed" 72
• Stomach – "Knee" 73
• Stomach – "Laid" 73
• Stomach – "Large" 74
• Stomach – "Legs" 74
• Stomach – "Life" 75
• Stomach – "Little" 76
• Stomach – "Living" 78
• Stomach – "Look" 80
• Stomach – "Lying" 80
• Stomach – "Man" 82
• Stomach – "Meats" 86
• Stomach – "Milk" 87
• Stomach – "Morning" 88
• Stomach – "Mouth" 88
• Stomach – "Myself" 89
• Stomach – "Nature" 90
• Stomach – "Night" 90
• Stomach – "Nothing" 91
• Stomach – "Old" 92
• Stomach – "Open" 93
• Stomach – "Order" 94
• Stomach – "Pain" 95
• Stomach – "Particularly" 96
• Stomach – "People" 97
• Stomach – "Place" 98
• Stomach – "Poor" 98
• Stomach – "Quietly" 99
• Stomach – "Rested" 100
• Stomach – "Rises" 100
• Stomach – "Run" 101
• Stomach – "Shall" 101
• Stomach – "Shooting" 102
• Stomach – "Sick" 103
• Stomach – "Skin" 104
• Stomach – "Sooner" 104
• Stomach – "Soul" 105
• Stomach – "State" 105
• Stomach – "Stay" 106
• Stomach – "Strong" 106
• Stomach – "Sure" 107
• Stomach – "Things" 108
• Stomach – "Think" 109
• Stomach – "Thus" 111
• Stomach – "Times" 111
• Stomach – "Water" 112
• Stomach – "Weak" 113
• Stomach – "Wine" 114
• Stomach – "Woman" 114
• Stomach – "Work" 115
• Stomach – "Years" 116
• Stomach – "Young" 117
• Nonfiction Usage 118
• Script Usage 118
• Spoken Usage 120
• Bible Usage 120
• Journalism Usage 121
• Legal Usage 164
• Governmental Usage 164
• Patent Usage 165
• Bibliographic Usage 193
• Encyclopedic Usage 356
• Lexicographic Usage 362
• Index 413