Banquet Quotes

82 quotes by 73 authors

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. — Aesop
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any… — Deepak Chopra
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If… — A. Philip Randolph
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion. — Quintilian
The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine… — Pope Benedict XVI
We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and… — Macdonald Critchley
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane… — Michael Jackson
At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at… — Therese of Lisieux
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty… — Pope Francis
On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary." — Yogi Berra
When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy. — Marilyn Monroe
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. — Homer
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall… — J D Salinger
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of… — LaVell Edwards
You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from… — Cory Booker
The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest. — Osbert Sitwell
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it — Washington Irving

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