A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

Henry David Thoreau

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Commonly Dinner Even Only Parable

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

Shel Silverstein

The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It's a cocktail and dinner. I know I'm a tired old geezer, but there you are.

Terry Wogan

If you go out to dinner with a group of people, pay for the dinner at a nice restaurant, for the amount of money for that dinner, you can get a John 5 Squier Telecaster and have it for the rest of your life.

John 5

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you organise a dinner party, and two guests cancel, it is still a dinner party: you still get to eat dinner.

Joe Lycett

When I was nine or 10, I remember having a dinner party at my mum and dad's house. I wanted to have a Thanksgiving dinner because I'd watched so many films that had Thanksgiving in it and I thought: 'Why do we not celebrate this?' So I cooked this big Thanksgiving dinner for probably 10 people and I wouldn't let anybody help me.

Edith Bowman

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

Lorrie Moore

Sydney Poitier, who said to Lester Maddox, Guess who's not coming to dinner? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Samuel Johnson

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

Holly Near

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

Holly Valance

Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

Shel Silverstein

There are very diminishingly few United States senators who you would like always want to have dinner with. It used to be in the Senate there were an awful lot of them. There are very few of them today that you would just be dying to go out and have dinner with. John McCain is someone I`d have dinner with seven nights a week.