To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCThe world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC