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~ The Lord takes care of children, drunks, and fools. I am not so sure He is equally provident with cooks who fake out formal dinners. Don't take any chances.

~ A woman with her sleeves rolled up and flour on her hands is one of the most gorgeous stabilities in the world. Don't let your family miss the sight.

~ Any man who cannot tell the difference between butter and margarine has callouses on the inside of his mouth.

~ A husband's hunger is one of the principal ornaments of his household. How sad, then, when he spends his day blunting the edge of the easiest, truest compliment he can pay his wife.

Me: AMEN

~ Breakfast is a time to be left alone with one's thoughts.

Me: amen

~ On the subject of vegetables, therefore, I urge you to please yourself first, last and always. Until they awake out of their youthful and dogmatic slumbers, even lettuce is too good for them.

~ But then, life is like that: What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare. If you have a vocation for strudel, you will, late or soon, come through with flying colors.

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~ The real secret of fasting is not that it is a simple way to keep one's weight down, but that it is a mysterious way of lifting creation into the Supper of the Lamb.

~ To eat without eating greatly is only to eat by halves.

~ A life sentence of one slice of homemade bread or three ounces of noodles per meal is a sad fate for the proud descendant of three generations of legendary eaters.