Starve

Famous quotes containing the word starve:

“If you are going into that line,—going to besiege the city of God,—you must not only be strong in engines, but prepared with provisions to starve out the garrison.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In vain we lavish out our lives,
To gather empty wind;
The choicest blessings earth can yield
Will starve a hungry mind.”
—Isaac Watts (1674–1748)

“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)