Famous quotes containing the words banquet and/or scene:
“One banquet in a rich family could feed a poor man’s family for half a year.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Fanny was not there! How she would have enjoyed the scene.... I could not but think of her, and in spite of my efforts to prevent, the unbidden tear would flow. Alas! I cannot feel the satisfaction some appear to do in the reflection that her eyes beheld the scene from the other world.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)