A Quote by Aldous Huxley

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Aldous Huxley

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Cease Else Must Rare Solemn

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Aldous Huxley
English - Writer
July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

Philip Sidney

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Charles Simmons

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

John Milton

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

William Law

If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.

Pythagoras

Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.

William Shakespeare

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

Michelangelo

Eating's pretty major; we have feasts at our house.

Trudie Styler

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Benjamin Franklin

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

John Suckling

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.