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Dinner Quotes

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If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
Bill Parcells

If they expect you to prepare the meal, then they should at least permit you to select some of the ingredients.
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2.
God will provide the food, but he will not cook the dinner.
Thomas Troward

3.
Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.
Wilhelm II

4.
Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.
Ronald Reagan

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Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
E. O. Wilson

6.
I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.
Hugh Hefner

7.
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys

8.
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
David Byrne

9.
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Fidel Castro

10.
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

11.
The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
Terry Pratchett

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And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
Tom Hanks

13.
I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day.
Mia Hamm

14.
Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
Oliver Heaviside

15.
What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
Wendi McLendon-Covey

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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.
Julie Burchill

17.
If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.
Michelle Dockery

18.
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

19.
Bless this highly nutritious microwavable macaroni and cheese dinner and the people who sold it on sale. Amen.
Kevin McAllister

20.
So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!
Robert Browning

21.
Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons

22.
‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!
Stephen Colbert

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The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
Tim Ferriss

24.
Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons

25.
An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.
Anton Chekhov

26.
Amelia Earhart, who said, Stop looking for me; see if you can find my luggage! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons

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The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.
Sydney Smith

28.
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
Nancy Mitford

29.
How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.
Samuel Barber

30.
Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons

31.
Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.
Marie-Antoine Careme

32.
I took my girl to dinner, and she laughed so hard at one of my jokes that she dropped her tray.
Jack Benny

33.
George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons

34.
Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
Oliver Heaviside

35.
I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!
Mario Balotelli

36.
Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons

37.
Crispus Attucks, who said, Don't shoot till you see the whites! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons

38.
It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.
Judith Martin

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I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.
Rodney Dangerfield

40.
Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons

42.
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
Tom Ford

43.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin

44.
Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.
Mia Hamm

45.
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale Hurston

46.
Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody Allen

47.
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
Kenneth Grahame

48.
If I could, I'd wear my sneakers everywhere, even for dinners or events.
Elizabeth Tan

49.
Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.
Kris Carr

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Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added
Groucho Marx