Relish Quotes

• A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

  Roald Dahl

  Funny, Wisdom, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.84, Penguin

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• Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with family and friends.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Journey, Joy, Family And Friends

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• We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Together, Rough Times, Remarkable

  "Fictional character: Tim". "About Time", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• What one relishes, nourishes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspiration, Healing

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

  Marc Riboud

  Inspirational, Life, Photography

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• Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

  Anne Desclos

  Faithful, Suffering, Tears

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• As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

  Bill Nighy

  Needs, Attention, Pay

  "Bill Nighy: 'I'm greedy for beauty'". Interview With Nigel Farndale, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2015.

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• Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Men, Thinking

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• Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

  Tom Peters

  Change, Learning, Past

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• It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Eye, Perspective, Perfection

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• Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter.

  Julian Barnes

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

  "Julian Barnes: The sense of another ending". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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• The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

  Molly Ivins

  Confusion, Democracy, Beloved

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• That enemy warrior appears to be a formidable opponent. I relish the challenge.

  Zhao Yun

  Warrior, Challenges, Enemy

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• A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Struggle, Heart

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• Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

  Ray Bradbury

  Argument, Basil, Curry

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• The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Moderation, Pleasure, Disposition

  "A Mother's Advice to Her Son". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1726.

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• Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Life, Clever, Intelligent

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.

  William James

  Courage, Attitude, Fear

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• If it’s change you need, relish the journey.

  Edward James Olmos

  Journey, Needs, Ifs

  "I'm Still Here", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• You gotta school these young macks comin' up today...
  I mean to be 'frank', they just hot dogs,
  The girls are relish, and they need to catchup on they pimpin'.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Girl, Dog, Rap

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• I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.

  James Boswell

  Infusion, Leafs, Johnson

  "Life of Johnson, Book I".

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• There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Lovely, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1814). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event”, p.79

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• My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.

  Dianna Agron

  Good Day, Class, Goal

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• Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

  Edward Hoagland

  Life, Divorce, Men

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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