Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.
The 'perfect marriage' of food and wine should allow for infidelity".
Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.
The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.
A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme- When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time?
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. [Lat. , Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit. ]
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279