Quotes with breakfast-table

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  • Marlene Dietrich Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Kingsley Amis A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Christopher Morley There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Ezra Pound We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Francis Bacon A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Boris Pasternak A candle burned on the table, a candle burned... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Denzel Washington A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it.'' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
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  • Bob Dylan A lot of people don't have much food on their table
    But they got a lot of forks and knives
    And they gotta cut something
    Bob Dylan (1962)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anne Spencer A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what a man needs to be happy ?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • William Shakespeare Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ronald Reagan All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
    Speech, 11-01-1989
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • William Penn Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Jacques Prevert An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
    Jacques Prevert
    French poet and prose st (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bob Keeshan Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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