Savour Quotes - Page 2

• Social service that savours of patronage is not service.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Social, Patronage, Social Service

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  Carl Honore

  Airplane, Journey, Lunch

  "Recession? The Perfect Time to Slow Down" by Carl Honoré, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2008.

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• the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Men, Perfection

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, Sir (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.

  John Suckling

  Eye, Night, Glasses

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• The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.

  Christian Harrison

  Responsibility, Priorities, Humanity

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• Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, People

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.292, Pan Macmillan

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• Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.

  Ralph Venning

  Mercy Of God, Mercy, Saviour

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• Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

  John Braine

  Writing, Pleasure, Ifs

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