Quotes About Savoring

Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.

What should we be doing in the meantime?" "All of the things you will look back on fondly later when you have not been able to do them for a long time.

I think that we can often be eating and not even really acknowledging that we are putting something about our mouths. I think there is lot to be said about eating dinner and not having the distraction of the TV.

I hadn't taken to the colonel, yet he had piqued my interest. You can be fascinated even by a tree frog if you watch it long enough. I was savoring the first drops of the poison that would carry us all to perdition.

Isabelle sipped the brandy. Experience had taught

night rather than to gobble it all up at once. And

Ant's eyes rounded. He knew the candy bar cost five cents. A fortune. "Chocolate!" He peeled back the wrapper slowly, revealing a sharp brown corner, which he bit off in a mouselike nibble. Savoring.

don't rush though: your eyes need time to taste. your soul needs room to bloom.

He listened the way a cactus drinks rain—every word a precious drop in a world frugal with wonder.

Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

Life's too short to say no to cake.

If the rose comes, we eat and drink near it; if it departs, we do not regret it.

Always eat grapes downwards — that is, always eat the best grape first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot...

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

when you rush to get to a mythical there, one day you will arrive and realize you missed all of the pleasures and mysteries along the way.

I am taking each game as it comes, enjoying it and taking that little bit of extra time to look around a full stadium, because I know it's not going to last forever. But I will try and make it last as long as possible.

A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he's eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

It takes a bit of time, but why hurry through the day just to get to the next?

When you ate her tuna casserole, you didn't talk or flip through a National Geographic. Your eyes and ears stayed inside your mouth. Your whole world kept inside your mouth, feeling and careful for the little balled-up tinfoils Irene Casey would hide in the tuna parts. A side effect of eating slow was, you naturally, genuinely tasted, and the food tasted better. Could be other ladies were better cooks, but you'd never notice.

And a moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Aparentemente, saborear va de la mano con la sensación de que el tiempo pasa con más lentitud".