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  • 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.

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