Table Quotes

1747 quotes by 1379 authors

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot… — Samuel Johnson
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts… — Ivan Turgenev
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan… — William Maxwell
Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place. — Adriana Trigiani
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. — Oliver Goldsmith
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette… — Artie Lange
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste. — Rocco DiSpirito
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the… — Nikolai Gogol
Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no… — Charlotte Bronte
What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also… — Robert Mueller
I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate… — Paula Deen
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner… — Marcel Proust
There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep… — Edith Schaeffer
What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on. — Vinton Cerf
I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lordâ€™s table. — Charles Spurgeon
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. — Wendell Phillips
Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one always regrets having… — Gaston Rebuffat
We gave up everything just to sit at your table. — John Lennon
I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure,… — Saul Bellow

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