Quotes About Sustenance

On the twenty-sixth day of the fifteen-day march, the last of the vegetables was consumed. On the thirty-second day, the last of the grain and fodder. Asha wondered how long a man could live on raw, half-frozen horse meat.

Eventually, having shoved enough down them to keep them more or less alive, I left them in their strawberry basket on the veranda

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.

Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

He liked to keep them hungry, so they were fed every other day.

He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?

No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us, and that our eternal life is assured.

It is easier to crouch on your knees and be fed by government than it is to stand on your feet and find your own sustenance.

Health requires healthy food.

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.

Le persone che aveva consultato gli avevano unanimemente risposto che la matematica, come il restauro degli organi a canne, era sì una bella cosa, ma che a un certo punto bisognava pur trovare un lavoro che desse da mangiare.

If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead.