#feast

The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the wine, did our bidding. The centerpiece was a roasted stag. crowned with gilded antlers and stuffed with songbirds; they had hunted well. We were forbidden to kill the deer that fattened on our coleworts and stole our grain, and the venison tasted all the better for the salt of revenge. ↗

— Sarah Micklem

#feast #peasants #revenge #venison #food

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#been #circles #david #declined #domestic

Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#alcohol #drunk #dwarf #feast #jon-snow

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#down #fall #feast #mind #our

A good conscience is a continual feast. ↗

— Robert Burton

#continual #feast #good

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#children #feast #feel #grateful #head

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul? ↗

— Charles Simeon

#corruption #cross #destroy #does #drive

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#celebrated #enormous #everyone #feast #had

Enough is as good as a feast. ↗

— Joshua Sylvester

#feast #good

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#feast #fits #gloomy #guest