Quotes About Savoring

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

kairosclerosis n. the moment you realize that you're currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it's little more than an aftertaste.

Time passes, and we "measure out our lives in coffee spoons.

There is one difference between a long life & a great dinner; in the dinner, the sweet things come last.

I always think of my grandfather as the original foodie. He was the slowest eater. He savored everything. Even when everyone was gone from the table, he was still eating.

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

After many days of grocery store food, sitting down for a deliberate, slow, expensive eating time can be the best.

Always eat grapes downward - that is eat the best grapes 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.

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.

Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes 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.

Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying about when that happiness would be taken away?

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

A waiter offers me a glass of champagne and I take two. One for now, one to put under my chair for the boring bits.

Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time.

But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.