#gal

There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until their final days on earth, a kind of culinary caution: butter, no matter how unlimited, is a precious substance not lightly to be wasted; meats, too, and eggs, and all the far-brought spices of the world, take on a new significance, having once been so rare. And that is good, for there can be no more shameful carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts. ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#food #frugality #society #war #art

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#copperfield #debt #dickens #frugality #income

Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production. ↗

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

#egalitarian #equality #freedom #change

Popular, You're gonna be Popular! I'll teach you the proper ploys when you talk to boys! Little ways to flirt and flounce! I'll show you what shoes to wear, how to fix your hair, everything that really counts, to be POPULAR!! ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

#popular #wicked #music

Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal. ↗

— Sue Merrell

#legal #natural #trust #well-dressed #nature

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#humour #legal-system #parenting

Men die. It's practically what they're for. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#gallows-humor #death

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day. ↗

— Brian D. McLaren

#orthodoxy #religion #tradition #religion

Gallantry emits respect. ↗

— Toba Beta

#respect #respect

It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before you can even consider entertaining other people. Because if it doesn't excite you, it's never gonna excite anybody. ↗

— Noel Gallagher

#music #noel-gallagher #oasis #art