Supper Quotes - Page 3

• So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

  Robert Browning

  Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner

  'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' (1842) st. 7

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• Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Knives, Naked

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [335]

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• Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public.

  Frederic Chopin

  Song, Play, People

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• The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Cat, Angel

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• Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it: "The Universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper is a Lord's supper, every work a fulfillment of the divine task, every joy a joy in God. In all preliminary concerns, ultimate concern is present, consecrating them."

  Paul Tillich

  Joy, Tasks, Lord's Supper

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• The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.

  Flora Thompson

  Home, Past, Fascination

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest act, and by which the heart of each individual believer may be reminded of his dearest friend. You, who have learned to love the Saviour, will prize His ordinance for the Saviour's sake. You who rejoice in the salvation purchased by His dying, will not fail with gratitude and faith to show the Lord's death until He come.

  William Morley Punshon

  Gratitude, Heart, Memorial

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 371), 1895.

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• There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.

  Adam Rapp

  Death, Wall, Moving

  Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.82, Candlewick Press

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• The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.

  Will Cuppy

  Men, Ideas, Stories

  "The Pike". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.

  Pauline Kael

  Home, Sunday, Night

  "Mirrors". Review of "Places in the Heart" on October 15, 1984. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 246, 1985.

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• You know I'll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Baby, Kissing, Dinner

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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• By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured

  George Herbert

  Killing, Galen, Has Beens

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.300

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• Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.

  Garrison Keillor

  God, Night, Lakes

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.18, Penguin

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• Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Bed, Culture

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves.
  We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.

  John Brunner

  Running, Powerful, Airplane

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• I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

  Lady Jane Grey

  Wine, Thinking, Blood

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• Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Organization, Feet

  Philip Yancey (2010). “Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage”, p.62, Zondervan

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• If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Sorrow, Live For Today, Lord's Supper

  Erwin W. Lutzer “The Doctrines That Divide: A Fresh Look at the Historic Doctrines That Separate Christians”, Kregel Publications

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• The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.

  John Flavel

  Dying, Use, Lord's Supper

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• When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.

  Robert D. Hales

  Men, Example, Lasts

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• Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

  Jane Brody

  Kings, Lunch, Typical

  Jane E. Brody (1982). “Jane Brody's The New York times guide to personal health”, Times Books(NY)

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• A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.

  Emily Post

  Gentleman, Asks

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.270, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair and blue eyes? Why is the Lord's supper all white men? Angels are white, the Pope, Mary, and even the angels.' I said, 'Mother, when we die, do we go to Heaven?' She said, 'Naturally we go to Heaven.' I said, 'Well, what happened to all the black angels?'

  Muhammad Ali

  Mother, Jesus, Eye

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Men, Too Late, Said

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• A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Men, Answers, Rich

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