A hungry stomach cannot hear.
More Quotes from Jean de La Fontaine:
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.Jean de La Fontaine
The god of love and wisdom ne'er agree.
Jean De La Fontaine
In what had he offended God or man?
Jean De La Fontaine
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean de La Fontaine
Affection's pow'r none better know than you,--
How few to love were ever half so true!
Jean De La Fontaine
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Jean de La Fontaine
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.Kurt Tucholsky
As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.
Juliette Binoche
A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
Francis Ford Coppola