Quotes About Savoring

Undue significance a starving man attaches to food Far off ; he sighs, and therefore hopeless, And therefore good. Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us That spices fly In the receipt. It was the distance Was savory.

We're always pushing through, hurrying on our long way, trying to get to some other place instead of enjoying the place we'd already got to.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

he felt about a meal in a restaurant the way people feel about money and good health: always better to have it.

If you're a Cabernet Sauvignon loyalist, you might want to consider ordering your steaks rare or medium-rare.

Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

When I'm working and I need to taste food, I use a small spoon or eat a small piece, rather than wolfing down an entire piece of cake.

To taste fully is to live fully.

Seeing America slowly was, in a way, like eating slow food-I wasn't covering much ground in a single day, but I was digesting a lot more.

martinis, steak, and red wine, a proven formula for deep thinking

El amor era un potente estimulante [...] que uno tenía que saborear con extrema prudencia, con sorbos pequeños y refinados, igual que el licor de cerezar.

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often.

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.

The point of eating is to slow down time

It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a chance of becoming more interesting in the process.

Life's like a fat orange, Frank thinks. When you're young, you squeeze it hard and fast, trying to get all the juice in a hurry. When you're older, you squeeze it slowly, savoring every drop. Because, one, you don't know how many drops you have left, and, two, the last drops are the sweetest.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."12

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

If you learn to respond as if it's the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.