Alexis Soyer Quotes

#1. The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.

Wilfred Grenfell

#2. Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.

John Nolte

#3. Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.

Alexis Soyer

#4. It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#5. Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself

Jane Austen

#6. So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry.

John Green

#7. A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.

Joe Carter

#8. Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.

Margaret Sanger

#9. Mort glanced sideways at the top of Ysabell's dress, which contained enough puppy fat for two litters of Rottweilers, and forbore to comment.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Can I stay with you all night?" I murmured into his bare chest. He whispered into my hair, "I'm not letting go.

Trish Marie Dawson

#11. What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you.

Alexis Soyer

#12. It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.

Alexis Soyer

#13. The thicker you paint, the more it flows.

John Singer Sargent

#14. Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

Alexis Soyer

#15. When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

Hugh Sidey

#16. War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

Winston Churchill

#17. We are here to make another world.

W. Edwards Deming

#18. As for things that could not be changed, they must stoically be endured.

Elizabeth Gilbert