Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.

Always chew on your pretzels before you swallow.

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

The table robbes more then a thiefe.

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

Do all your eating at a table.

History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.

Never lick a steak knife.

Armour is light at table.

You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.

Words and works eat not at one table.

I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

And not to serve for a table-talk.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.