A hungry man is an angry man
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A hungry man is an angry man
Hungry men ar angry.
[c 1641 D. Fergusson Scottish Proverbs (STS) no. 553]
A hungry man, an angry man.
[1659 J. Howell Proverbs (English) 13]
‘I'm hungry.’‥‘And I'm angry, so let us both go fight.’
[1738 Swift Polite Conversation ii. 119]
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.
[1909 Spectator 22 May 824]
Hungry man is an angry man.
[1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 161]
A hungry mob is an angry mob, a pot a cook but the food not enough.
[1981 B. Marley in Times 17 Oct. 7]
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