Eating Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts,…

— Alexander Pope

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

— Joan Rivers

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

— Ambrose Bierce

Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste;…

— Rudyard Kipling

“Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful, broad, bright-eyed, red-cheeked, with mouths apt to laughter, and to eating and drinking. And…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I read a lot when I was a kid - I was very taken with these notions of feasting and people coming together. I…

— Andi Oliver

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

— Aldous Huxley

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:…

— Bible

Tears on the mauseoleum floor. Blood stains the coliseum doors. Lies on the lips of a priest. Thanksgiving disguised as a feast.

— Jay-Z

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

— Philip Massinger

It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep…

— Kenneth Grahame