Famous Merlot Quotes & Sayings

While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187 — Michael Pollan

Don't underestimate the value of friends. — David Arnold

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself. — Van Morrison

The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain. — Paulo Coelho

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation. — James C. Scott

If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died. — James Surowiecki