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| A good repast ought to begin with hunger. French. | 1 |
| A hungry ass eats any straw. Italian. | 2 |
| A hungry stomach has no ears. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch. | 3 |
| A hungry clown is half mad. French. | 4 |
| A hungry dog and a thirsty horse take no heed of blows. Danish. | 5 |
| A hungry dog does not fear the stick. | 6 |
| A hungry horse maketh a clean manger. | 7 |
| A hungry kite sees a dead horse afar off. | 8 |
| A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers. Spanish. | 9 |
| A hungry man is an angry man. | 10 |
| A hungry man sees far. | 11 |
| A hungry man smells meat afar off. | 12 |
| A hungry wolf has sharp teeth. German. | 13 |
| A hungry wolf is not at rest. Portuguese. | 14 |
| A man who wants bread is ready for anything. French. | 15 |
| A starved belly has no ears. French. | 16 |
| A starved town is soon forced to surrender. Italian. | 17 |
| As hungry as a church mouse. | 18 |
| Bakers and millers are last to die of hunger. German. | 19 |
| Better cross an angry man than a fasting man. Danish. | 20 |
| He that’s full takes no care of him that’s fasting. | 21 |
| He thinks of everything who wants bread. | 22 |
| Hunger and cold surrender a man to his enemy. Spanish, Portuguese. | 23 |
Hunger and thirst scarcely kill any,
But gluttony and drink kill a great many. | 24 |
| Hunger becomes the teacher of many. Modern Greek. | 25 |
| Hunger changes beans into almonds. Italian. | 26 |
| Hunger drives the wolf out of the woods. French, Italian, German, Dutch. | 27 |
| Hunger drives the workman over snow and ice. German. | 28 |
| Hunger eats through stone walls. Dutch. | 29 |
| Hunger fears no gallows. German. | 30 |
| Hunger finds no fault with the cooking. | 31 |
| Hunger is a sharp, fierce dog. West Indian Africans. | 32 |
| Hunger is better than a French cook. Fielding. | 33 |
| Hunger is good kitchen meat. | 34 |
| Hunger is insolent and will be fed. Homer. | 35 |
| Hunger is sharper than the sword. Beaumont and Fletcher. | 36 |
| Hunger is the best cook. German. | 37 |
| Hunger is the best sauce. French, Italian, Dutch, Danish. | 38 |
| Hunger is the best seasoning for meat. Youngs, Cicero. | 39 |
| Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger. Zimmerman. | 40 |
| Hunger looks in at the industrious man’s door but does not enter. French. | 41 |
| Hunger makes raw beans relish well. | 42 |
| Hunger sweetens beans. Latin. | 43 |
| Hunger teaches many things. Latin. | 44 |
| Hunger will obey no laws. | 45 |
| Hungry men think the cook lazy. | 46 |
| It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly. Danish. | 47 |
| The best sauce is hunger and that is never wanting to the poor. Don Quixote. | 48 |
| The full belly does not believe in hunger. Italian. | 49 |
| The hungry man is not satisfied with looking in the full man’s face. Turkish. | 50 |
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| The open mouth never remains hungry. Russian. | 51 |
| The well-fed man does not believe in hunger. Italian. | 52 |
| To the hungry no bread is bad. | 53 |
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