Supper Quotes
148 quotes by 133 authors
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
— Francis Bacon
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Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more…
— R.D. Blackmore
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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of…
— Herman Melville
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Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious…
— Brigit of Kildare
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I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green…
— Mary Antin
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After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to…
— Michio Kaku
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Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said…
— John Bunyan
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[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and…
— Martin Luther
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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one...'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We show our adoration by going to visit Christ in the tabernacle or exposed in the monstrance. Would it not indeed be a failing in…
— Columba Marmion
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Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and…
— Ray Bradbury
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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval…
— Samuel Johnson
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People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest…
— Herman Melville
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I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three…
— Charles Willeford
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There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger…
— Bill Engvall
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I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time.
— Jeremy Clarkson
Who Wrote These Supper Quotes
133 authors contributed a total of 148 Supper Quotes, led by these top contributors: