"Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth."

-- Plato

#Teaching Quotes #Wine Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“The way before you is being prepared, so that you may stand up!”
“I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.”
“The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and tell a story while using no time cuts, no flashbacks, nothing but pure real time just seemed too difficult.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.”
“Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.”
“And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.”
“It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.”
“The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac. It had no place in the troll's world of instant gratification. It makes no appeal to the meat-and-two-veg mentality.”

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.15, U of Nebraska Press

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