"I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots."

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Source : John Evelyn (1997). “John Evelyn, Cook: The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn”, Prospect Books (UK)

John Evelyn

#Confused Quotes #Men Quotes #Roots Quotes

“I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.”
“In some Churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.”
“My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.”

Source : Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 05, 2011.
“True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
“Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.”
“If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.”
“I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.”
“We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organâ€”with no side effects.”

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