lunch quotes

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

-Warren Minor Christopher
  On beginning talks in Beijing with China's Prime Minister. In the NewYork Times,13 Mar.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

- Milton Friedman
  Lecture. The phrase is thought to have been coined anonymously, perhaps referring to the19c US tradition of supplying food in bars to patrons buying drinks.

A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

- Allen Ginsberg
  'On Burroughs'  Work'.

The free lunch has still to be invented.

- Alan Greenspan
  On the US budget deficit, 6 May.

The Emperor Caligula 's Habits were somewhat irrigula. When he sat down to lunch He got drunk at onch.

- Robert Paton Longden
Quoted and first published in  Arnold Silcock Verse and Worse (1952),'Potted Biography'.

My idea of long-range planning is lunch.

- Frank also known as  'DrTomorrow' Ogden
  Ogdenisms: The Frank Ogden Quote Book.