Best Banquet Quotes
82 Banquet quotes by 71 unique authors
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It gladdens me to know that Baldr’s father [Odin] makes ready the benches for a banquet. Soon we shall be drinking ale from the curved…
— Ragnar Lodbrok
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Here is a book to savor?flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how to care for…
— Tony Hiss
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Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.
— Zig Ziglar
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Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.
— Maya Angelou
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The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city…
— Donna Tartt
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Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with…
— Thomas Oden
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.
— Petrarch
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The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and…
— John Burroughs
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Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you…
— Langston Hughes
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of…
— John Lahr
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
— Patti Smith
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The banquet is in the first bite.
— Michael Pollan
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The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms…
— Lord Byron
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My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is…
— Chauncey Depew
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You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress…
— Tama J. Kieves
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
— Martial
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One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves.…
— Saul Bellow
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In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of…
— Horace Mann
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Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes…
— Matsuo Basho
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I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
— Edward George, Baron George
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With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder,…
— Hartley Coleridge
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The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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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
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You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which…
— Pope Paul VI
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