Quotes for All
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed). Epictetus
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to … Read more
We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure… For us life always moves with lilting measure We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies. Elbert Hubbard
… I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. Elaine Dundy
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded. Edward George, Baron George
literature is the last banquet between minds. Edna O’Brien
Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world. E. A. Bucchianeri
We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, … Read more
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn’t have been at all … Read more