"Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able."

-- Ovid

#Food Quotes #Able Quotes #Appetite Quotes

“Keep food in the fridge, so it don't go stale. When there is nothing left to eat, I bite my nails.”
“Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.”
“I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.”
“Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.”
“Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.”
“Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation... 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.”
“I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.”
“Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.”

Source : "God and the Atom". Book by Ronald Knox, pp. 53 - 54, 1945.

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