Favourite Quotes

This is where I'll keep track of cool quotes I find.  For the most part they'll have to do with cooking and reading but some may be just because I think they're profound or pretty cool! I'll post my new finds on my blog then put them in here to keep track of them.

• "A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she's in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt
• "The only stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking, you've got to have the 'what-the-hell attitude'. -- Julia Child
• "I find television very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." --- Groucho Marx
• "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." -- Emilie Buchwald
• "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond." -- C.S. Lewis 
• "A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch." -- James Beard
• "The more that you read, the more things that you'll know,
  The more that you learn, the more places you'll go!"
  -- Dr Seuss ("I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!" - 1978)
• "Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend." -- Zenna Schaffer
• "Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books." -- "Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" pg 67
• "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." -- Mark Twain
• "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me". -- C. S. Lewis
• "A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive." -- Erica Jong, "O Magazine" 2003