Table Quotes

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

Happy, Else, Fruit

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

Change, Great, America

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Together, Dream, Able

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin

Family, Nice, Real

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

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman

Rather, Roses, Diamonds

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka

Wait, Choice, Leave

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Rodney Dangerfield

Life, Age, Food

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

Work, Successful, Hard

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan

Music, Today, Living

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
Mitt Romney

Morning, Mom, Dad

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

Best, Hungry, Argument

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Lucille Ball

Everything, Hand, Close

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wise, Single, Study

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu

Someone, Compassion, Himself

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul II

War, Death, Pain

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Leadership, Today, Hard

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

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus

Fear, Rich, Free

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce

Game, Enjoy, Chance

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy

Work, Best, Home

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden

Evil, Human, Bed

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Madeleine Albright

Friendship, Human, Person

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
Ingrid Bergman

Star, Though, Full

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne

Education, Good, True

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
Jean Kerr

Good, Job, Friendly

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
Louise Hart

Happiness, Health, Important

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
George Mikes

Good, Food, Manners

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton

Change, Moral, Fall

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Newman

Game, Around, Tell

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