Dinner Quotes

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

Change, Great, America

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin

Rather, Debt, Rise

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin

Sure, Fortune, Waits

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
Marilyn Monroe

Home, Between, Playing

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
Marilyn Monroe

Yourself, Play, After

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George Carlin

Death, Person, Party

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck

Time, Home, Wedding

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken

Found, Promise, Among

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Good, Long

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

Expect, Interest, Butcher

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Voltaire

Best, Hungry, Argument

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon

Life, Miserable, Fine

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman

Music, Marriage, Time

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
Rodney Dangerfield

Marriage, Sleep, Together

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.
Will Estes

Romantic, Nice, Old

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson

Good, Wife, General

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham

Talk, Party, Eat

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz

Child, Ask, Wants

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Body, Lunch, Breakfast

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock

Good, Worth, Film

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
James Bovard

Democracy, Two, Voting

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
George Washington Carver

Mind, Keep, Learn

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
Gracie Allen

Mother, Enough, She

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music, Insult, Both

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.
Daniel Radcliffe

Love, Work, Time

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
Ina Garten

Making, Large, Chicken

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.
Michelle Obama

Good, Sunday, Nothing

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.
Liam Neeson

Used, Call, Irish

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Success, Politics

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Anna Kendrick

Good, Someone, Game

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