These stomach quotes will inspire you. The stomach is a muscular sac in the middle of the upper abdomen that helps break down and digest food.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging stomach quotes, stomach sayings, and stomach proverbs.
Best Stomach Quotes
- “When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.” ~ St. Jerome
- “Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.” ~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- “He who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.” ~ St. Jerome
- “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” ~ Fanny Fern
- “When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.” ~ Enoch Powell
- “When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.” ~ Euripides
- “No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.” ~ William Cowper
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“It’s no fun to protest on an empty stomach.” ~ Michael Bloomberg
- “An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.” ~ Athenaeus
- “A hungry stomach cannot hear.” ~ Jean de La Fontaine
- “For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
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“Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.” ~ Robert Falcon Scott
- “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 , Stomach quotes about love
- “I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.” ~ Elizabeth I
- “On learning to swim: I’m too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say ‘Now kick your feet.'” ~ Will Smith
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“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “The joy of being a consumer is that it doesnt require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.” ~ Matt Taibbi
- “An army marches on its stomach.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte.
- “No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it.” ~ Frank A. Clark
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“He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.” ~ Saadi
- “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
- “The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
- “It’s really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don’t you think?” ~ Winona Ryder
- “The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his chest.” ~ Roseanne Barr
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“A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.” ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” ~ Flannery O’Connor
- “The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure – chest collapsed, stomach protruding.” ~ Gene Tunney
- “I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.” ~ William Cobbett
- “A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn’t have an ego when it’s wanting to throw up. It just does it” ~ Matthew Barney
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“Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.” ~ Horace
- “I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.” ~ Joan Rivers
- “Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.” ~ Socrates
- “If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals’ behinds, I would be a vet.” ~ Allison Janney
- “All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.” ~ David Selby
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“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.” ~ Kurt Cobain
- “The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.” ~ Paul Samuelson
- “Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach.” ~ Carnie Wilson
- “It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.” ~ Felix Frankfurter
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“Sometimes the way to a man’s heart is through his talleywacker.” ~ Sabrina Jeffries
- “This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it’s like replacing a football in your stomach.” ~ Evel Knievel
- “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” ~ Upton Sinclair
- “The girls want to see the rips on your stomach – they like that.” ~ Usher
- “If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.” ~ Marlon Brando
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“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
- “That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.” ~ Boris Pasternak
- “First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.” ~ Douglas Horton
- “The way to a man’s heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.” ~ Jo Brand
- “You needn’t tell me that a man who doesn’t love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.” ~ Hector Hugh Munro
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“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.” ~ Dick Powell
- “Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.” ~ Lynn Margulis
- “It’s very hard to concentrate when your stomach’s rumbling.” ~ Shania Twain
- “A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.” ~ Ann Landers
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“Nobuddy ever listened t’ reason on a empty stomach.” ~ Kin Hubbard
- “Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.” ~ Joyce Brothers
- “Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell.” ~ LeCrae
- “It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions…. We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father—a noble, pious man.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome
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“If something is wrong with anyone, look first to the stomach.” ~ Arnold Ehret
- “A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “In the pit of her stomach, she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night– the restrictions, rules, and guidelines– was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.” ~ Robin Jones Gunn
