Banquets Quotes

93 Banquets quotes by 82 unique authors

The banquet is in the first bite. — Michael Pollan
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
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
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
I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent. — Martial
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present,… — Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. — Aaron Hill
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded. — Edward George, Baron George
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
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. — Rebecca Harding Davis
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
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
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. — Rosalind Russell
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
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
...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
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
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
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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