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... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. -- Elaine Dundy
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. -- Bennett Cerf
The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest. -- Osbert Sitwell
Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet is, that it comes when something's over, and there's nothing more to worry about, and to-morrow seems a long way off. -- Kenneth Grahame
I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play. -- Mako Iwamatsu
I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play. -- Mako
We should have a banquet on the day haters die. -- Ovadia Yosef
Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine. -- Roy Evans
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. -- Rosalind Russell
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. -- Aesop
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. -- Aristotle
In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet. -- Felix Bloch
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. -- George Eliot
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure. -- Deepak Chopra
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. -- James Thurber
My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. -- Pope Paul VI
OK, I love 'The King and I.' I'm a huge Yul Brynner fan. I love the scene where they danced after the big banquet; that's one of my favorite scenes in a movie of all time. It's romantic and sweet and wonderful. -- Tina Majorino
Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I was at a banquet, and I went into the ladies' room, and I'm in the stall doing my business, and a piece of paper and pen came from outside the door, and she says, 'Ms. Wagner, would you please sign this for me?' And I said, 'Are you kidding me?' -- Lindsay Wagner
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger. -- Greg van Eekhout
Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts. -- John Lahr
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. -- Homer
The banquet is in the first bite. -- Michael Pollan
The whole banquet is in the first spoonful. -- Deepak Chopra
Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill. -- George Herbert
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it -- Washington Irving
Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet. -- Maya Angelou
Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life. -- Zig Ziglar
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging. -- Mark Twain
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. -- Petrarch
You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen. -- William Stafford
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed. -- Patti Smith
It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet. -- Stacy Aumonier
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. -- John Gay
Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite. -- Robert Herrick
On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary." -- Yogi Berra
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded. -- Edward George, Baron George
It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet. -- Gerald Asher
If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck) -- Deb Caletti
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. -- Mark Twain
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent. -- Martial
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion. -- Quintilian
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press. -- Lewis H. Lapham
So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted. -- Alan Seeger
When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy. -- Marilyn Monroe
You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift , not from Shopsy's. -- Robertson Davies
I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast. -- Anthony Bourdain
Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu. -- David Suzuki
The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago. -- Bill Gates
This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy. -- Tom Brown, Jr.
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care? -- Lucretius
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla. -- J. D. Salinger
Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! -- J. K. Rowling
[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap. -- Kim Campbell
You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie. -- Tama J. Kieves
Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter. -- Matthew Fox
My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home. -- Chauncey Depew
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression. -- Hartley Coleridge
We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret. -- Macdonald Critchley

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