Robert J Courtine quotes

Robert J Courtine quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The onion is the truffle of the poor.”
-- Robert J Courtine

#Food Quotes #Onions Quotes #Poor Quotes

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.”
“Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.”
“Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.”
“I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.”
“I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.”
“For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.”

Source : Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.16, 谷月社
“If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you donâ€™t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, Iâ€™m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.”
“You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.”
“Haste is a poor counselor”
“When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.”

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