All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

We learn to love our sweat we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination.

I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.

I ain't nothing but a winner.

Good music is good music and that should be enough for anybody.

Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home people are trying to make sense of their lives.

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life.

I think there's something about supernatural shows that people see and just want to put me in them! I don't know. I just finished another show - 'The Nine Lives of Chloe King,' with Skyler Samuels, who was my girlfriend in 'The Gates' - and I play another supernatural character on that show.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.

The tighter you try to hold on to a taurus the more they will slip through your fingers.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the Chinese, and the Maya did, among others. Once invented, science proved so useful that it spread like mold on a petri dish.

Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Religions change beer and wine remain.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family.

It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.