"Man does not live by bread alone, but also by the Word of God." I want to put it another way: Man does not live only by the Word of God, but also by bread.

Do you really think one can be truly loving when one is short of bread?

1781. Half a Loaf is better than no Bread.

The gnawings of hunger conquers by degrees, till all that a man has he would give in exchange for a single crust of bread.

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

"People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

The unleavened bread of knowledge will sustain life, but it is dull fare unless it is leavened with the yeast of personality.

"The bread of the stranger is bitter," says Dante, "and his staircase hard to climb." But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?

Do you consider a man to be a Christian by whose bread no hungry man is ever filled?

473. Hope is the poor man's bread.

"But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." / What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?

An old proverb fetched from the outward and visible world says: "Only the man that works gets the bread." Strangely enough this proverb does not aptly apply in that world to which it expressly belongs. For the outward world is subjected to the law of imperfection, and again and again the experience is repeated that he too who does not work gets the bread, and that he who sleeps gets it more abundantly than the man who works. In the outward world everything is made payable to the bearer, this world is in bondage to the law of indifference, and to him who has the ring, the spirit of the ring is obedient, whether he be Noureddin or Aladdin, and he who has the world's treasure, has it, however he got it.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.