(85 quotes found)
“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
Robert Burton
“From feast to famine”
Proverb
“One cannot both feast and become rich”
Ashanti Proverb
“These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: / Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.”
Bible
“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.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Chief nourished in life's feast.”
William Shakespeare
“Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.”
Contributed by: Randi
Augusta E. Rundel
“An improper mind is a perpetual feast”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been -To public feasts, where meet a public rout - Where they are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out”
John Davies
“Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.”
Victor Murphy