Quotes of Repast - somelinesforyou

“ Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. ”

- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“ For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the bother of talk after dinner. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. ”

- George Santayana

“ He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ”

- Orson Welles

“ Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ”

- Nancy Reagan

“ Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. ”

- Rowan Atkinson

“ Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred. ”

- Bible

“ The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'What kind of tea?'. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ Under certain circumstances, there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ”

- Henry James

“ I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. ”

- Rob Lowe

“ I have never regarded any theater as much more than the conclusion to a dinner or the prelude to a supper. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Sunday dinner isn't sunnyEaster feasts are just bad luckWhen you see it from the viewpointOf a chicken or a duck. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ If the wine is good, a bad match will not destroy dinner. ”

- Harvey Steiman

“ A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“ Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none. ”

- A. W. Tozer

“ Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. ”

- Brother Lawrence

“ I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ Pray take them, Sir, — Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner. ”

- William Shakespeare
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