A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.


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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
PROVERB
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
WELSH PROVERB
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So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
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We Are All Infinite
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(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY
Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY
no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Those who fear failure do not want to know the real taste of success
ANUJ SOMANY
I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Mondays taste like split-pea soup,

Tuesdays taste like gobbledygook,

Wednesday...
CLAUDINE CARMEL
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP
My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?
C. FERN COOK
Give two people same ingredients to prepare soup,it will always taste different because of different...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
Taste is a matter of taste.
JAY MCINERNEY
I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at ho...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The ocean has only one taste, the taste of salt. Truth has only one taste, the taste of freedom.
BUDDHA
Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost...
JOHN GAY
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
They're a taste of your past, ... crave a taste of home.
ANNE BYRN
Nobody has the monopoly of the Kingdom of God. Everyone is a client. Everyone is an agent. Everyone ...
JOHN B. BEJO
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
PABLO PICASSO
Ah, good taste--What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
PABLO PICASSO
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recog...
HENRY JAMES
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAG
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES
The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY
If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET
My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I’ve learned to lick
my own foul wounds
and prize the taste of ache.
CHILA WOYCHIK
Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you ca...
DANIEL BOULUD
I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole th...
MADS MIKKELSEN
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions o...
HENRY JAMES
A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a ...
SUMMER ALTICE
Lack of wisdom does not make a fool. A fool, in the truest sense, is the man who regards his own mis...
DAISAKU IKEDA
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK
There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t...
C. JOYBELL C.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is o...
FRAN&CCEDIL;OIS-REN&EACUTE; DE CHATEAUBRIAND
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is onl...
ALEXANDER POPE
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
NIKKI GIOVANNI
It's extremely bad taste, but bad taste is not against the law.
DEAN NELSON
A Taste of Cherry.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Farming is the oldest profession on earth
SOTONYE ANGA
He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
When it rains soup, the poor man has no spoon
SWEDISH PROVERB
The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but th...
ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY
The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS...
The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY
Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS...
It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS...
To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS...
I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN
كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف
The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT
Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be exp...
DIEGO DELLA VALLE
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE
Dearly beloved – dearly revered – dearly discovered – dearly feared – all present – all po...
DHARLENE MARIE FAHL
If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.
RUTH REICHL
Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste."
WILLIE BROWN

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Le regole son quelle.
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Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
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Same rules apply.
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I’d always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went t...
IRVINE WELSH
Bob and Katherine Devlin have been tremendously supportive, donating space and time for one of their...
MEL WELSH
We wanted to finish off well. I'm just amazed by how much fight we had at the end of the week. I don...
MATT WELSH
Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough
IRVINE WELSH
They come by and they have fun. We're going to be hosting some parties here and we'll be having even...
PAUL WELSH
There are already three or four of these companies in the Denver area, but we're really the first of...
TIM WELSH
Two choices; one: tough it oot, back in the room, two: phone that cunt Forrester and go tae Muirhoos...
IRVINE WELSH
Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside...
IRVINE WELSH
It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not fi...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humani...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; bu...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement....
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me then another is the quantity of heart I fi...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and d...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband'...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering huma...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far high...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. I...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is a...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
Small consistent effort beats grand gestures.
RUTH NINA WELSH
Live in the moment, with an eye to the future and a glance to the past.
RUTH NINA WELSH
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! L...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion ...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I fi...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has give...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards ...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB
To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB
The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB
Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB
A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB
From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB
Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB