Food for Thought
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One’s Own)
“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”
— Gabriel Garcí a Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
— Albert Camus
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
— Bertrand Russell
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.”
— Ilyas Kassam
“Ice-cream is exquisite.
What a pity it isn’t illegal.”
— Voltaire
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“There’s an old joke - um… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ‘em says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.” Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.”
— Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
— Albert Camus
“If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, you’re not taking it seriously enough.”
— Ilyas Kassam
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
— Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
— Albert Einstein
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
— Epicurus
‘If we are related, we shall meet”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Food for Thought
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One’s Own)
“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”
— Gabriel Garcí a Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
— Albert Camus
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
— Bertrand Russell
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.”
— Ilyas Kassam
“Ice-cream is exquisite.
What a pity it isn’t illegal.”
— Voltaire
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“There’s an old joke - um… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ‘em says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.” Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.”
— Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
— Albert Camus
“If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, you’re not taking it seriously enough.”
— Ilyas Kassam
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
— Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
— Albert Einstein
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
— Epicurus
‘If we are related, we shall meet”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
