Susan L. Rattiner - Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 shed just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

GRACIE ALLEN

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

JOSH BILLINGS

In due time the tea was spread forth in handsome style; and neither ham, tarts, nor marmalade were wanting among its accompaniments.

CHARLOTTE BRONT

A good breakfast is no substitute for a large dinner.

When going to an eating house, go to one that is filled with customers.

CHINESE PROVERB

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

ADELLE DAVIS

One can say everything best over a meal.

GEORGE ELIOT

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.

EPICURUS

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

It isnt so much whats on the table that matters, as whats on the chairs.

W. S. GILBERT

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

JOHN GUNTHER

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly arranged and well-provisioned breakfast table.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner.

HEBREW PROVERB

Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day.

DUNCAN HINES

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

RUDYARD KIPLING

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

CHARLES LAMB

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

JUDITH MARTIN, MISS MANNERS

Dinner, a time when ... one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

They sat down to tables that well might have groaned, even howled, such was the weight that they carried.

MARTHA McCULLOCH-WILLIAMS

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.

FRANK MUIR

Dinnertime is the most wonderful period of the day and perhaps its goalthe blossoming of the day. Breakfast is the bud.

NOVALIS

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

SAMUEL PEPYS

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels.

FREDERIC RAPHAEL

Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The hour of dinner includes everything of sensual and intellectual gratification which a great nation glories in producing.

SYDNEY SMITH

A clear soup, a bit of fish, a couple of little entres and a nice little roast. Thats my kind of a dinner.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I went to dinner, which was served in a small private room of the club with the usual piano and fiddlers present to make conversation difficult and comfort impossible.

MARK TWAIN

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

ORSON WELLES

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

RICHARD WHATELY

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT