feast quotes

A feast ismade for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes10:19.

A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for Cowards were erected, Churches built to please the Priest.

- Robert Burns
c.1786  'The  Jolly Beggars', or 'Love and Liberty, a Cantata', chorus to a song to the tune'Jolly Mortals, fill your glasses'.

Are these the choice dishes the Doctor has sent us? Is this the great poet whose works so content us? This Goldsmith's fine feast, who has written fine books? Heaven sends us fine meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

- David Garrick
  'On Doctor Goldsmith's Characteristical Cookery'.

Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

- Sir William (Gerald) Golding
  Close Quarters.

When I would make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

- SirJohn Harington
  Epigrams, bk.1, no.5,'Against  WritersThat Carp at Other Men's Books'.

Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

- Ben Jonson
^10  Epicoene, act1, sc.1.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

- Logan Pearsall Smith
Afterthoughts,'Life and Human Nature'.