A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

1483 CAXTON Cato B6V As hunger chaceth the wolfe out of the wode thus sobrete

[sobriety] chaseth the deuyl fro the man. 1591 J. FLORIO Second Fruits 125 Hunger

driues the wolfe out of the wood, if I had not great neede of monie, you should neuer haue

them so dog cheape. 1748 SMOLLETT Gil Blas (1749) IV. XII. vii. This one .. I own is

the child of necessity. Hunger, thou knowest, brings the wolf out of the wood. 1872 R.

BROWNING Works (1897) III. 323 Hunger, proverbs say, allures the wolf from the

wood. 1905 J. B. CABELL Line of Love iv. Hunger .. causes the wolf to sally from the

wood. hunger; necessity

HUNGER is the best sauce

Cf. CICERO De Finibus II. xxviii. cibi condimentum essefamem, hunger is the spice of
food; early 15th-cent. Fr. n’est sauce qui vaille fain, there is no sauce worth so much as
hunger.

1530 A. BARCLAY Eclogues (EETS) II. 743 Make hunger thy sause be thou neuer

so nice, For there shalt thou finde none other kind of spice. 1539 R. TAVERNER Garden

of Wisdom I. B1 He [Socrates] sayd, the beste sawce is hungre. 1555 R. EDEN tr. P.

Martyr’s Decades of New World II. iii. (margin) Hunger is the best sauce. 1850 C.

KINGSLEY Alton Locke I. ix. If hunger is, as they say, a better sauce than any Ude

invents, you should spend .. months shut out from every glimpse of Nature, if you would

taste her beauties. 1929 F. M. MCNEILL Scots Kitchen iii. Mere hunger, which is the best

sauce, will not produce cookery, which is the art of sauces. 1939 L. I. WILDER By Shores

of Silver Lake xxi. ‘The gravy is extra good too.’ ‘Hunger is the best sauce,’ Ma replied

modestly. 1996 Washington Post 7 Aug. A10 However, just as hunger is the best sauce

for unappetizing food, political peril is the best argument for Dole to swallow his

skepticism. food and drink; hunger

A HUNGRY man is an angry man

c 1641 D. FERGUSSON Scottish Proverbs (STS) no. 553 Hungry men ar angry. 1659

J. HOWELL Proverbs (English) 13 A hungry man, an angry man. 1738 SWIFT Polite

Conversation ii. 119 ‘I’m hungry.’ .. ‘And I’m angry, so let us both go fight.’ 1909

Spectator 22 May 824 The Acharnians [in a play of that name by Aristophanes].. made

fun of the Athenians. .. ‘A hungry man is an angry man’ .. and the Athenians were

certainly hungry. 1922 J. JOYCE Ulysses 161 Hungry man is an angry man. 1981 B.

MARLEY in Times 17 Oct. 7 A hungry mob is an angry mob, a pot a cook but the food

not enough. hunger

hunt see until the LIONS produce their own historian,..; you cannot RUN with the hare and