| Author |
Quotes |
| Leigh Hunt | If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. |
| Leo Burnett | I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. |
| Lin Yutang | Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937. |
| Lord Chesterfield | Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. |
| Lord Chesterfield | I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. |
| Lord Chesterfield | Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. |
| Lord Chesterfield | An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746. |
| Lucille S Harper | The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. |
| Luigi Barzini | They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. |
| Luigi Barzini | Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. |
| Lyman Frank Baum | That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. |
| M Scott Peck | Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. |
| Malcolm Muggeridge | Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. |
| Mark Allen | Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it. |
| Martha Graham | We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. |
| Marya Mannes | It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards". |
| Matthew Broderick | I slip from workaholic to bum real easy. |
| Michael Apostolius | In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. |
| Michael Korda | Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. |
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