Better Quote by Jami Attenberg

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts

— Anonymous

“What is more important than the meal? Doesn’t the least observant man-about-town look upon the implementation and ritual progress of a meal as a…

— Paul Valéry

Eating's pretty major; we have feasts at our house.

— Trudie Styler

“Whether we are feasting or fasting or somewhere in between, food should have a sacred role in our lives. It can be something we…

— Mary DeTurris Poust

Rituals are important.

— John Lennon

“We don't see the New Testament church hoarding the feast for themselves, gorging, getting fatter and fatter and asking for more; more bible studies,…

— Jen Hatmaker

“We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings, by which the farmer expresses a sense of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts...

— Saint Basil

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

— Epictetus

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

— Aldous Huxley

“Eating be eating, b'ain't it, Birdie?' 'Nay, Uncle Bear: In Caermelor, at the Royal Court, they be so-oh, so much more advanced than anywhere…

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that…

— John Climacus