... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet…

“But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake,…

— Elaine Dundy

To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such…

— Thomas Hardy

Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have…

— Jane Jacobs

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for…

— John Steinbeck

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a…

— John Ralston Saul

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully…

— Epictetus

We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending,…

— Macdonald Critchley

Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck…

— Brock Yates

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

— Herman Melville

“This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man,…

— Anonymous

It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

— Gerald Asher

For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect…

— Pope Paul VI

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

— Deb Caletti

My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care,…

— Chauncey Depew

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving