As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
‘When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,’ said Piglet at last, ‘What’s the first thing you say to yourself?’ ‘What’s for breakfast?’ said Pooh.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Harry’s mouth fell open. The dishes in front of him were now piled with food. He had never seen so many things he liked to eat on one table: roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops, sausages, bacon and steak, boiled potatoes, roast potatoes, fries, Yorkshire pudding, peas, carrots, gravy, ketchup, and, for some strange reason, peppermint humbugs.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Our grapes fresh from the vine, Pomegranates full and fine, Dates and sharp bullaces, Rare pears and greengages, Damsons and bilberries, Taste them and try: Currants and gooseberries, Bright-fire-like barberries, Figs to fill your mouth, Citrons from the South, Sweet to tongue and sound to eye, Come buy, come buy.
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village she must seek them abroad.
Would you like to have an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?
ABCs of business decay, which are arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency.
The sillier the market's behaviour, the greater the opportunity for the businesslike investor.
It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.
Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.