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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.


Georges Bernanos

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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
GEORGES BERNANOS In a day a man needs only his daily bread.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A man needs only his daily bread.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A mind full of knowledge is worth more than a belly full of bread.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Hope is the poor man's bread.
THALES OF MILETUS Hope is the poor man's bread.
GEORGE HERBERT The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D.H. LAWRENCE The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D. H. LAWRENCE There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion
ARTHUR KOESTLER A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more than block her view. She needs a man standing...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS The poor man, who acknowledges his limitation and knows he has nothing to give, has everything to gi...
ETC WANYANWU A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. FIELDS Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
BIBLE A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
ALEXANDER SMITH A poor man is nothing but just like a wheel without a tyre in his own bicycle.
VIKRANT PARSAI Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable...
JOHANN ARNDT Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER A poor man but with a rich idea,is nothing but a rich man.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
LORD HALIFAX A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN Like the hope cannot expect more than its own self, man cannot be other than his soul.
SORIN CERIN A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that.
ROBERT BLACK See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:7
BIBLE Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him (Proverbs 26:12).
BIBLE Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.
ADRIANA TRIGIANI Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in advers...
PLUTARCH If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need...
THéOPHILE GAUTIER A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though ...
JURGEN MOLTMANN Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is advers...
PLUTARCH Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
JOHN C. MAXWELL A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.
ERALDO BANOVAC There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater t...
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.
ERNEST LEHMAN The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not qu...
OLD SONG No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires mo...
JEREMY TAYLOR You can’t judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions.�...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
PLAUTUS Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and ch...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Nothing arouses more hope than the first four hours of a diet.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I am nothing more than a wretched man that needs God's mercy and grace. I am redeemed by the blood o...
NORM TOMLINSON Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
MARK VAN DOREN Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
BIBLE A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
MARK CAINE A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. WHITE A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE There is nothing more disgraceful than a vain man."

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a...
DEVIN MADSON Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
PROVERB Nothing is more acceptable to a man, than a friend in time of need.
UNKNOWN Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.
BRANDON SANDERSON THERE IS MORE HOPE IN THE UNKNOWN THAN IN THE FEARFUL,IGNORANCE OF MAN
RANDOLPH L. HARRIS No clock is more regular than the belly
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is advers...
PLUTARCH Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SIDNEY MADWED Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SYDNEY MADWED Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
GEORGES BERNANOS The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
GEORGES BERNANOS It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
GEORGES BERNANOS The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
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GEORGES BERNANOS No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
GEORGES BERNANOS What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from ...
GEORGES BERNANOS And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your ...
GEORGES BERNANOS I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, ...
GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
GEORGES BERNANOS Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious ...
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GEORGES BERNANOS Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem o...
GEORGES BERNANOS Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
GEORGES BERNANOS Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
GEORGES BERNANOS What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which f...
GEORGES BERNANOS Hope is a risk that must be run.
GEORGES BERNANOS It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
GEORGES BERNANOS Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
GEORGES BERNANOS A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem ...
GEORGES BERNANOS A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ...
GEORGES BERNANOS Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ...
GEORGES BERNANOS And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your ...
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GEORGES PEREC Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
GEORGES BATAILLE Uzunca bir süre kendine sığınaklar kurup yıktın: düzen ya da eylemsizlik, başıboş sürükl...
GEORGES PEREC Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be...
GEORGES PEREC Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ...
GEORGES PEREC Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
GEORGES PEREC Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le...
GEORGES PEREC Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ...
GEORGES PEREC A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU I am a believer and a conformist.
GEORGES ROUAULT Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hu...
GEORGES RODENBACH Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a ...
GEORGES CUVIER A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not lim...
GEORGES CUVIER The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells ...
GEORGES CUVIER The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even cl...
GEORGES CUVIER In fact, ST was one of the first companies to initiate an environmental management program, which wa...
GEORGES AUGUSTE ST has long been a supporter of, and participant in international programs aimed at reducing greenho...
GEORGES AUGUSTE What often happens in a situation like this is people latch onto very concrete things, like buying v...
GEORGES BENJAMIN If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seas...
GEORGES BENJAMIN A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't.
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