"Why not make a daily pleasure out a…" — Peter Mayle
"Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity."
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25 Quotes by Peter Mayle
Peter Mayle has 25 quotes on this site.
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we…
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Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two…
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Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear…
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The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to…
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I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of…
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Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and…
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It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side…
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There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .
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Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.
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I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.
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Best advice I've ever received: Finish.
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Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.
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I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin,…
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I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But…
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work…
— James A. Baldwin
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open…
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best…
— Jim Bishop
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I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap.…
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