Spencer Johnson Quotes

There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.

All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

Only love and death will change all things.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.

I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist.

It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.

You can't get old without living.