Banquets Quotes

• Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

  Maya Angelou

  Buffets, Life Is, Limitless

  "Maya Angelou's poem in praise of Hillary" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2008.

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• 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

  Sight, Smell, Joy

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.284

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• 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

  Nice, Drinking, Long

  Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Reluctant Dragon”, p.25, Booklassic

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• God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Trying, Saying No

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.126, SPCK

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• The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Earth, Sun, Thanksgiving Inspirational

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• 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, where there is companionship.

  Dorothy Day

  Heaven, Bread, Companionship

  "The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day". Book by Dorothy Day, 1952.

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• The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Firsts, Whole

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life”, p.17, Random House

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• Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

  Zig Ziglar

  Steps, Exciting, Halls

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.324, Pelican Publishing

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• 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

  Life, Sweet, People

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• Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Reality, Late

  "Banquet of Consequences". Speech by Bart Chilton, Commissioner Commodity Futures Trading Commission before the Environmental Markets Association 12th Annual Fall Conference, Seattle, Washington, www.cftc.gov. November 19, 2008.

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• This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

  Andrew Jackson

  Long, Want, Dinner

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• It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

  Aristotle

  Life, Philosophical, Alcohol

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• 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.

  Animal, Men, Garden

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• The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Church, Limits, Retreat

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• The banquet is in the first bite.

  Michael Pollan

  Firsts, Bites

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.111, Penguin

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• A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

  Aesop

  Peace, Stress, Food

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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• 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

  Numbers, Order, Bread

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels had at tables across from lovers, on blankets with friends who'd eventually become more, in banquets, barbecues, and breakfasts.

  Stephanie Klein

  Memories, Romance, Meals

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• We should have a banquet on the day haters die.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Should Have, Should, Dies

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• I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Religious, Stupid, Ideas

  Louis Auchincloss (2004). “East Side Story: A Novel”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.

  George Herbert

  Ill

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.348

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• You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.

  Knute Rockne

  Attending, Knows

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• Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

  Rosalind Russell

  Funny, Life, Movie

  "Fictional character: Mame Dennis". "Auntie Mame", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

  Washington Irving

  Jealousy, People, Poison

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