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As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the tother say, 'Where sall we gang and dine to-day?' 'In behint yon auld fail dye, I wot there lies a new-slain knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. 'His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet.'
Better is little with the fear of the L than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Their civilization is based on the most forthrightly materialistic value system in the history of mankind. If they see pie in the sky, they immediately start figuring out how to get it down onto the dinner table.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Dinner parties are for eating, not mating.
Dinner in the diner nothing could be finer than to have your ham'n eggs in Carolina.
The best number fora dinner party istwomyself and a damn good head waiter.
I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours'march to dinnerand then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
We had a delicious dinner of too much.
And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?
A man should have dinner with his friends, and the commanding general has no friends.
A revolution is not a dinner party.
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each canbecomeaccomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing todayand another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening or criticize after dinner, just as I desire, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any otheranimals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and thescience of metaphysics.
The Kamikaze Ground Staff Re-union Dinner.
After dinner to the Duke's house, and there sawTwelfth Night acted well, though it be but a silly play.
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.
'How did you think I managed at dinner,Clarence?' 'Capitally!' 'I had a knife and two forks left at the end,'she said regretfully.
Thackeray settled like a meat-fly on whatever one had got for dinner, and made one sick of it.
It isnot fromthebenevolence ofthebutcher, thebrewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
We were to do more business after dinner, but after dinner is after dinneran old saying and a true,'much drinking, little thinking'.
I do wish we could chat longer but I'm having an old friend for dinner.
Murder is always a mistake One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
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