Tampering With Food Quotes & Sayings

The appearance of mediocrity is often useful in life because it weakens tautly strung strings and sobers up people's self-confident or self-forgetful feelings, reminding them how close they are to mediocrity as well. — Ivan Turgenev

Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him. — Freya Stark

In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices
that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities. — Walter E. Williams

She did not sing it at bedtimes because all small boys born to the High Speech must face the dark alone, — Stephen King

But underneath it all I tell myself the tiny glow-worm of the Leave event will be blinking. Up to me to surmount the trial, everything is dependent upon my will, impotent, tenacious, helpless, dogged, with a swollen sense of honor, I tell myself. I know me. Not that I'm the strongest as my friend used to claim, but I've always had the strength - weakness maybe - to believe that if "in the end we die, too fast," as he puts it, later on, as sequel, there's a chance that someone-I-don't-know-who - or I-don't-know-what - may come back. No keeping oneself from dying. Afterwards nothing stops one returning. — Helene Cixous

It's an exciting adventure to give those things that you've always held onto. — Frederick Lenz

Usually I don't disclose who my friends are, or talk about the places where I have travelled or am going to travel. — Agni Sreedhar

I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt. — Liza Minnelli

As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds. — William Morris

Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining. — Debasish Mridha

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences. — Josefa Iloilo