"After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs."

-- William Safire

#White Quotes #Giving Quotes #Culture Quotes

“My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...”
“Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.”
“The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a president of the United States.”
“I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.”

Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.119, Clear Press Ltd
“A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.”
“An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.”
“Robert Redford, ha ha! He's a very attractive man and I'm not. Or Noel Edmonds, as he's a friend of mine and knows me well.”
“But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.”

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