Quotes

Here are some of our most favourite quotes.

FOOD

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper
Adelle Davis

To eat is human, to digest, divine
Mark Twain

Eat to live, not live to eat.
Benjamin Franklin

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

Benjamin Franklin

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat
Mark Twain

A hungry stomach cannot hear
Jean de La Fontaine

When I repress my emotions, my stomach keeps score
John Powell

What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
Anonymous

 

FOOD

MUSIC

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.
William Shakespeare

The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare

 

MUSIC

PEOPLE

Be to yourself as you would to your friend.
William Shakespeare

The reading of all great books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Rene Descartes 1596-1650

We all boil at different degrees
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am for people. I can’t help it.
Charlie Chaplin

As we grow better, we meet better people
Elbert Hubbard

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Be content to seem what you really are
Marcus Aurelius

Anger cannot be dishonest.
Marcus Aurelius

Each day provides its own gifts
Marcus Aurelius

 

PEOPLE

HAPPIENESS

Regardless how much they discover in the fields of neuroscience and present it in academics papers to woe the scholars…we just know that laughter works and makes learning easy, builds relationships, cements relationships, grows respect & motivates.
Edward de Bono

Happiness is a habit - cultivate it.
Elbert Hubbard

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Some pursue happiness - others create it.

Anonymous

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient

Aristotle

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

Walt Disney

 

HAPPIENESS

CHILDREN

It takes a village to raise a child.
African Proverb

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott

 

CHILDREN

LOVE and LIFE

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Life must be lived as play.
Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
Chinese proverb

 

LOVE and LIFE

BREATHING

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Murial Rukeyser

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
L. Frank Baum

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
David Sarnoff

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn’t, I would die.
Isaac Asimo


BREATHING