Eliza Acton Quotes

#1. Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

#2. I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

Charlie Munger

#3. Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Walter Smith

#4. I love thee, as I love the calm
Of sweet, star-lighted hours!
I love thee, as I love the balm
Of early jest 'mine flowers.

Eliza Acton

#5. Snow makes a soft bed, but no man wakes from it. That was the wisdom of the North.

Mark Lawrence

#6. Don't seek a failure-less life.
Wear failure as a badge of honour. Seek a fearless life !

Manoj Arora

#7. To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

D. B. Sweeney

#8. But nothing in here can hurt you unless I make it," said Holden gently, "so it's really me you're afraid of, right?

Maculategiraffe

#9. Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.

Sophocles

#10. I love thee as I love the tone
Of some soft-breathing flute
Whose soul is wak'd for me alone,
When all beside is mute.

Eliza Acton

#11. It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

Eliza Acton

#12. It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.

Eliza Acton

#13. Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Iris Murdoch

#14. This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.

Diet Eman

#15. Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes.

Eliza Acton

#16. Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.

Eliza Acton

#17. I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#18. Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.

Ernest Hemingway,