Best Banquet Sayings
82 Banquet quotes by 71 unique authors
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Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
— Rosalind Russell
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to…
— James Thurber
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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 rejection…
— John Ralston Saul
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Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the…
— John Steinbeck
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...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest…
— Katherine Paterson
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But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood…
— Lord Byron
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The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite…
— John Piper
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I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining…
— Arthur Golden
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All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents…
— Upton Sinclair
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Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit!…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)
— Deb Caletti
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The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.
— Deepak Chopra
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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch…
— Epictetus
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We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed…
— Anne Lamott
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We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread,…
— Dorothy Day
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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
— Mark Twain
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For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for…
— Pope Paul VI
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Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was…
— Greg van Eekhout
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.
— Roy Evans
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
— Felix Bloch
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My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under…
— Adelbert von Chamisso
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If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never be able to achieve the noble feelings…
— Anne Austin
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