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- If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.
- Fernand Point
- The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet
- Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 10-20-09
- Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windemere's Fan
- We make our gadgets our own by the way that we use them, with or without the permission of the manufacturer.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Gadgets Page, 07-09-09
- My mom grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx and gave me an invaluable piece of advice for dealing with people in New York - if someone's bugging you just act crazy. I've modified her approach somewhat. Public displays of religiosity work just as well as feigning psychosis.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant, 01-14-10
- The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.
- Charles Fleischer, TED Talk: All things are Moleeds, February 2005
- You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 01-19-10
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