Quotes of Feast - somelinesforyou

“ I have never regarded any theater as much more than the conclusion to a dinner or the prelude to a supper. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. ”

- Naomi Klein

“ For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. ”

- W. J. Ronald Tucker

“ ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it. Enough is as good as a feast — for that matter Enougher's as good as a feast for the platter. Arbely C. Strunk. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Mass on Sunday is the traditional time for families, but it's primarily a religious feast. ”

- Glenn Duffy

“ If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ St. Patrick… one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish. ”

- Charles M. Madigan

“ We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East. ”

- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“ Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. ”

- Epictetus

“ War is death's feast. ”

- George Herbert

“ If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch. ”

- Bill Anderson

“ The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. ”

- William Osler

“ He made us feel we were present at a feast of wit, fed by his good sense, and thrilled to be, for that brief time, in on the jest. ”

- Beverly Frankel Fields

“ There's no such thing as a free lunch. ”

- Milton Friedman

“ Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. ”

- Charles de Montesquieu

“ Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. ”

- George Eliot

“ More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Holidays help because they come with stories, and the Hanukkah story is good for relaying that the divine pervades everything, even darkness. ”

- Unknown

“ Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal. ”

- Harvey Fergusson

“ Every businessman over 50 should have a daily nap and nip-a short nap after lunch and a relaxing highball before dinner. ”

- Sara Murray Jordan

“ It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck... organized by men. ”

- Patti Page

“ The sabbaths of Eternity. One sabbath deep and wide. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Martha's Holidays 2005. ”

- Martha Stewart

“ Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. ”

- Alice Walker

“ He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper. ”

- Unknown

“ If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c. ”

- Benjamin Franklin
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