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.
“An age is the reversal of an age:
When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,
We lived like men that watch a painted stage.
What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:
It had not touched our lives.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)