Mouthful Quotes

48 quotes by 45 authors

I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the… — Marcel Proust
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life… — Plutarch
Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet. — Therese of Lisieux
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes,… — Anne Frank
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be… — Raymond Chandler
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell… — Saint Francis de Sales
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. — Tom Waits
SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST. — Jenny Holzer
A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen… — Charles Spurgeon
I'll tell you the truth; I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any… — Paul Gascoigne
Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life. — A. A. Gill
An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter. — James Rowland Angell
To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths--good and terrible, overwhelming and… — Kate Christensen
Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering… — Anne Sexton
First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to… — Truman Capote
The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but… — Raymond Chandler
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which… — A. J. Jacobs

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