A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

hundred see the BUYER has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.
HUNGER drives the wolf out of the wood
Cf. early 14th-cent. Fr. la fains enchace le loufdou bois, hunger chases the wolf from the wood.

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  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.

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  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