DINNER

Related Subjects: Cooks and Cooking, Eating, Feast, Food

1. A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.—BOILEAU, Le Lutrin
   

2. All human history attests
   That happiness for man—the hungry sinner—
   Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner!—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. 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, Diogenes
   

4. When a man is invited to dinner, he is disappointed if he does not get something good.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

5. Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
   

6. A good dinner, and company.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
   

7. To the Trinity House, where a very good dinner among the old soakers.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
   

8. He sups ill, who eats up all at dinner.—Proverb
   

9. Better a good dinner than a fine coat.—Proverb
   

10. A dinner lubricates business.—WILLIAM SCOTT
    

11. Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

12. I will make an end of my dinner ; there's pippins and cheese to come.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

13. Dinner was made for eatin', not for talkin'.—THACKERAY, Fashnable Fax
    

14. They make their pride in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little.—THOREAU