After dinner sit a while,
After supper walk a mile. [ Proverb ]

At dinner my man appears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A dinner lubricates business. [ Lord Stowell ]

He sups ill who eats up all at dinner. [ Proverb ]

He fell upon whatever was offered, like
A priest, a shark, an alderman, or pike. [ Byron ]

The tocsin of the soul - the dinner bell! [ Byron ]

That all-softening, overpowering knell.
The tocsin of the soul - the dinner bell. [ Byron ]

When dinner has oppress'd one,
I think it is perhaps the gloomiest hour
Which turns up out of the sad twenty-four. [ Byron ]

Nice eaters seldom meet with a good dinner. [ Proverb ]

All human history attests
That happiness for man - the hungry sinner —
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner! [ Byron ]

When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. [ Proverb ]

Their various cares in one great point combine
The business of their lives, that is - to dine. [ Young ]

Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field.
Still on their dinner turn -
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Who eats his dinner alone, must saddle his horse. [ Proverb ]

A dinner warmed up again was never worth anything. [ Boileau ]

He fasts enough whose wife scolds all dinner-time. [ Proverb ]

To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner. [ Proverb ]

After dinner rest awhile; after supper walk a mile. [ Proverb ]

Twas a public feast and public day -
Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold,
Great plenty, much formality, small cheer.
And everybody out of their own sphere. [ Byron ]

Pheasants are fools if they invite the hawk to dinner. [ Proverb ]

A good dinner sharpens wit, while it softens the heart. [ Doran ]

He that saves his dinner will have the more for supper. [ Proverb ]

You will know an idle fellow if you but see him at dinner. [ Proverb ]

He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper. [ Proverb ]

He that waits upon another's trencher makes many a little dinner. [ Proverb ]

They have need of a canny cook that have but one egg for their dinner. [ Proverb ]

After a good dinner one could forgive anybody, even one's own relations. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. [ Colton ]

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose. [ Zimmermann ]

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. [ Bible ]

Laurie got offended that I used the word puke. But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner; come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stock-brokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters; it is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. [ V. Hugo ]

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. [ E. H. Chapin, D.D ]

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons? [ Lamb ]

Civilized society feels that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value than the possession of a good chef. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrees, nor an irreproachable private life for a bad dinner and poor wines. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs: after this period, he takes his share of it with the others. [ Chamfort ]

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. [ Johnson ]

Partake or Eat? Partake, meaning to take a part of in common with others, to participate, is often affectedly used as a synonym of eat. It is correct to say that two or more persons partake of dinner, as they may partake of anything else. But, for the individual who eats alone, to say he partook of refreshments is an egregious blunder. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]