Dinner Quotes (page 18)

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• promise
• politician
• missionaries

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

• best
• good
• party

The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter. Nubar Gulbenkian

• friend
• thoughts
• cocktail

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world. Harold H. Greene

• small
• cheese
• apple

I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish. Sprague Grayden

• thanksgiving
• small
• sacrifice

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. Jennifer Granholm

• society
• hateful
• sorting

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. Kenneth Grahame

• eating
• dinners
• days

I only eat one meal a day. Lunch, not dinner. Robert Goulet

• music
• drinking
• old

I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that. Ina Garten

• feeling
• guilty
• work

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have! Ina Garten

• good
• home
• good food

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. Ina Garten

• smile
• friends
• my friend

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. Ina Garten

• thanksgiving
• thinking
• chicken

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

• learning
• society
• discussion

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. Michael Gambon

• waiting
• surely
• sure

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

• bed
• beds
• rising

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