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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What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbLife is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCDoing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900