#banquet

Life serves the food, and Death always shows up to the banquet, like an univited guest with nothing in hand to contribute, just to devour everything then leave. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#death #devour #left-with-nothing #life #selfish

As king, your desires must be stronger than any other. You must be more magnificent, more easily angered than everyone else! He should be both pure and chaotic, a man who was more real than any other man. Only through this could your subjects be impressed by their king, and only through this would the message ‘if I was king, such would be my wonder’ be imprinted upon their hearts. ↗

— 武内 崇

#banquet-speech #inspirational #anger

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ... ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#experiences #fun #inspirational #life #life-lessons

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. ↗

— Aristotle

#best #drunken #life #neither #nor

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#consequences #down #everybody #late #sits

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ↗

— Aesop

#anxiety #banquet #better #crust #eaten

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#breath #earth #friends #love #our

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine. ↗

— Roy Evans

#european #football #like #liverpool #wine

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. ↗

— George Eliot

#breeds #cries #death #feed #him