supper quotes

  • Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      Apophthegms.

  • Well, maybe like Casy says, a fellowain't got a soul of his own, but on'ya piece of a big onean then† Then it don'matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be everywherewherever you look.Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.Wherever they's a cop beatin'up aguy,I'll bethere.If Casyknowed, why,I'll be inthewayguysyell whenthey'remad an'I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an'they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they buildwhy, I'll be there. See?

    -John Ernest Steinbeck
      The Grapes ofWrath, ch.28.

  •    After supper Pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one delirium tremens.

    - Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
      TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.6.

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