I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.
[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap.
We Georgians are really into food and drink. We would never have finger food at a party or a wedding - celebrations are always one long meal, on one long table, with endless toasts.
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindles, affairs of state—everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
The banquet is in the first bite.
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.
My vision is one of celebrations and banquets, diplomas and banners, rings and parades.
I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.
My dad was a bartender that worked banquets. So that meant holidays, weekends, nights.
Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.
... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.
The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.
Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.
