Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

M. F. K. Fisher's Popular Quotes

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

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I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished m…

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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

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The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

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Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly thro…

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It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

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No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

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Salad is roughage and a French idea.

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