Quotable Quotes (26 page)

—
A
NTHELME
B
RILLAT-
S
AVARIN

 

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

—
E
LSA
S
CHIAPARELLI

 

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

—
B
ERNARD
S
HAW

 

We never repent of having eaten too little.

—
T
HOMAS
J
EFFERSON

 

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

—
L
UCIANO
P
AVAROTTI WITH
W
ILLIAM
W
RIGHT

Pavarotti, My Own Story

 

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

—
M
OHANDAS
K
.
G
ANDHI

 

Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.

—
C
HINESE PROVERB

 

'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

—
W
ILLIAM
S
HAKESPEARE

 

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

Never eat more than you can lift.

—
Miss Piggy's Guide to Life
, as told to Henry Beard

 

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

—
R
OBERT
L
OUIS
S
TEVENSON

 

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

—
E
DUARDO
G
ALEANO

The Book of Embraces

 

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

—
H
ENRY
V
AN
D
YKE

 

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

—
M
ARCUS
A
URELIUS

 

Part of the art of living is knowing how to compare yourself with the right people. Dissatisfaction is often the result of unsuitable comparison.

—
D
R.
H
EINRICH
S
OBOTKA

Madame

 

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

—
F
RIEDRICH
N
IETZSCHE

 

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

—
R
OBERT
B
RAULT

in
National Enquirer

 

Yes, there is a nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

—
K
AHLIL
G
IBRAN

 

When things start going your way, it's usually because you stopped going the wrong way down a one-way street.

—Los Angeles Times Syndicate

 

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

I
DEALS ARE LIKE THE STARS 
. . .

 

Ideals are like the stars. We never reach them but, like the mariners on the sea, we chart our course by them.

—
C
ARL
S
CHURZ

 

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth.

—
A
LBERT
E
INSTEIN

Ideas and Opinions

 

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

—
T
HE
T
ALMUD

 

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

—
R
ICHARD
M
.
N
IXON

 

If things were really as we wanted them to be, people would still complain that they were no longer what they used to be.

—
P
IERRE
D
AC

 

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

—
C
ARL
S
ANDBURG

 

S
OME THINGS HAVE TO BE BELIEVED 
. . .

 

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

—R
ALPH
H
ODGSON

The Skylark and Other Poems

 

One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests.

—
J
OHN
S
TUART
M
ILL

 

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

—
S
TANISLAUS
I

 

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

—
C
ULLEN
H
IGHTOWER

 

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

—
M
ARK
B
ELTAIRE

 

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

—
C
ARL
S
AGAN

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

 

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

—
J
ACQUES
C
OUSTEAU

 

We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.

—
L
IBBIE
F
UDIM

 

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

—
B
LAISE
P
ASCAL

 

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

—
R
ALPH
W
ALDO
E
MERSON

 

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

—
W
ILLIAM
A
RTHUR
W
ARD

 

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog—the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

—
C
ORRIE
T
EN
B
OOM

Tramp for the Lord

 

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.

—
R
ABINDRANATH
T
AGORE

 

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

—
A
.
R
OBERT
T
URGOT

 

If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!

—
R
ALPH
W
ALDO
E
MERSON

 

Many of us look at the Ten Commandments as an exam paper: eight only to be attempted.

—
M
ALCOLM
M
UGGERIDGE

Reality Ireland

 

The finest fruit of serious learning should be the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment.

—
N
ATHAN
M
.
P
USEY

 

Our rabbi once said, “God always answers our prayers, it's just that sometimes the answer is no.”

—
B
ARBARA
F
EINSTEIN

 

If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved?

—
St. Mathias' Church Bulletin

 

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

—Quoted in
Guideposts Magazine

 

It is good enough to talk of God while we are sitting here after a nice breakfast and looking forward to a nicer luncheon, but how am I to talk of God to the millions who have to go without two meals a day? To them God can only appear as bread and butter.

—
M
OHANDAS
K
.
G
ANDHI

 

Real religion is a way of life, not a white cloak to be wrapped around us on the Sabbath and then cast aside into the six-day closet of unconcern.

—William Arthur Ward

Think It Over

 

H
OPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS 
. . .

 

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

—
E
MILY
D
ICKINSON

 

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

—
A
LFRED,
L
ORD
T
ENNYSON

 

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

—
A
RAB PROVERB

 

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

—
S
AMUEL
J
OHNSON

 

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

—
V
ACLAV
H
AVEL

Disturbing the Peace

 

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

—
G
.
K
.
C
HESTERTON

 

Waiting is still an occupation. It is not having anything to wait for that is terrible.

—
C
ESARE
P
AVESE

Il Mestiere di Vivere

 

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

—
H
ENRY
D
AVID
T
HOREAU

 

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn.

—
K
AHLIL
G
IBRAN

 

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

—
E
PICTETUS

 

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

—
R
EV.
M
ARTIN
L
UTHER
K
ING
J
R.

 

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

—
C
LARE
B
OOTHE
L
UCE

 

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

—
J
.
B
.
P
RIESTLEY

 

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

—Bernie Siegel

Love, Medicine and Miracles

 

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

—
R
EV.
C
HARLES
L
.
A
LLEN

 

There is no better or more blessed bondage than to be a prisoner of hope.

—
R
OY
Z
.
K
EMP

 

T
HE KIND OF BEAUTY
I
WANT 
. . .

 

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within—strength, courage, dignity.

—
R
UBY
D
EE

 

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.