One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001
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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.
—John Ruskin, 1860Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCIt is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886