Feasts Quotes

45 quotes by 36 authors

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats,… — Dennis Banks
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside… — Tori Amos
How I loved the feasts!.... I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw… — Therese of Lisieux
...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have… — Pico Iyer
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts. — Philip Sidney
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are. — Michelangelo
Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a… — Dallin H. Oaks
One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and… — Julius Wellhausen
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. — John Suckling
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to… — Alain de Botton
I ask again, and I want a better answer, WHAT are you!" He demanded."I told you before, a human rises with the sun, but I… — Miranda Leek
I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of… — Samuel Rutherford
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to… — Murray Bookchin
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length… — Juvenal
He who feasts every day, feasts no day. — Charles Simmons
To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother… — Wang Wei
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation. — Bernard Cornwell
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
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh… — Oliver Goldsmith

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