Supper Quotes

• Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

  Joshua

  Men, Order, Enemy

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• Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

  George Herbert

  Dinner, Hunger, Pastime

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.317

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• What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?

  Sue Grafton

  Smell

  Sue Grafton (1988). “"E" is for Evidence”, p.219, Macmillan

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• Adventures make one late for supper.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Late

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• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

  Francis Bacon

  Motivational, Hope, Wisdom

  J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 7 (1859) 'Apophthegms contained in Resuscitatio' no. 36

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• When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

  Diogenes

  Time, Men, Rich

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• It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Bed, Pleasant

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Lunch, Paris

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• You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  Larry Flynt

  Niece, Sheep, Majority Rule

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• Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Literature, Exciting

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.20, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I always say people can call me anything they want as long as they don't call me late for supper.

  Robert De Niro

  Long, People, Want

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• Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

  George Farquhar

  Play, Grace, Theatre

  James Pocock, James Townley, David Garrick, George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe (1818). “Hit Or Miss! A Musical Farce in Two Acts”

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• You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.

  Caprice Bourret

  Cheating, Your Boyfriend, Males

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhism, Feelings, Bed

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.63, Shambhala Publications

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• The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,
  In whatso we share with anothers need;
  Not what we give, but what we share,
  For the gift without the giver is bare;
  Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
  Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Three, Needs

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.46, tredition

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• Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

  Louise Brown

  Children, Reading, Sleep

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• The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hands, World, Dishes

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• One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

  Clifford Odets

  Life Is Short, Happy Life, Night

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• You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

  James Earl Jones

  Ideas, Singing, Church

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength.

  Rosa Parks

  Prayer, Sunday, Grandmother

  "Quiet Strength: the Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation,". Book by Gregory J. Reed and Rosa Parks, 1994.

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• My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!

  Maeve Binchy

  Father, Journey, Long

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Cooking, Wells

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• The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Reading, Mean

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• He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.

  Peter L. Berger

  Gone Away, Long, Interesting

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• What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

  Edward Abbey

  Jesus, Lasts, Checks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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