Starve

Famous quotes containing the word starve:

“They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness therefore to be seated in the mean.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)