Quotes About Well-fed

You reason like a well-fed man, while your comrade's philosophy comes from an empty stomach. With reason you won't vanquish one another. You would agree at once if either you were hungry or he were full. The animal is always first in you and only when it is appeased, Man becomes conscious and in his great pride, despises his real nature.

Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions, but when he recovers from wounds he forgets the torments, and when he is well fed he is joyous in the light of day.

A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson