Top 120 Banquet Quotes & Sayings

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

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

Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.

It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

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.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

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.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

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.

Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

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.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

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.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

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.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but by attraction.

literature is the last banquet between minds.

The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.

We should have a banquet on the day haters die.

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.

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

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?

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

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

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.

I'd rather play a double-header than speak at a banquet, and if I went to Wrigley Field knowing I had to be somewhere two hours after the game, it would bother me all day.

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

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.

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.

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.

Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.

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.

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.

The banquet is in the first bite.

You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.

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!

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

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

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

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.

The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot see that there is a banquet because seeing the banquet requires that we see also ourselves sitting there starving-seeing ourselves clearly, even for a moment, is shattering. We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

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

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.

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

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.