Quotes About Banquets

Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.

American teachers are all trained to think poor; we love conferences and book fairs with hospitality suites, expenses paid and banquets of rubbery chicken, sweet French dressing, and unspeakable peas

Laughter is brightest where food is best.

Like Elizabeth, she enjoyed two "courses" at both dinner and supper

And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to vice, thanks to porticoes, baths and banquets. He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement' ('Humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset').

And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to vice, thanks to porticoes, baths and banquets. He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement

Each spring we go to big banquets, press and politicians all done up in formal dress, where everyone applauds the awarding of prizes to journalists who have exposed the crumminess of the political leaders sitting at the head table, joining in the ovation and fun. Lots of jokes are made. Lots of hands are shaken. It is a community affair.

Our mother and father had a club. The Society of Inimitable Livers." "And what did this society do?" she asked breathlessly. "They had banquets on ships and discussed literature with philosophers from around the world." "Then they changed it to the Order of the Inseparable in Death," I added, "when our father lost the Battle of Actium.