#fancy

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

#amuses #fancy #found #history #improves

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort. ↗

— William Banting

#adds #am #any #bulk #comfortable

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always. ↗

— Ray Davies

#fancy #me #only #own #penetrate

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#fancy #half #in the past #legitimacy #past

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#ingratitude #often #reality #self-love #suffer

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#better #chef #combine #cook #delectable