| S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. | | | | Feasting |
| | | It is not the quantity of meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast. Where there is no peace, there can be no feast. Earl of Clarendon. | 1 |
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| We owe obedience to the law of reason, which teacheth mediocrity in meats and drinks. Richard Hooker. | 2 |
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| All those snug junketings and public gormandizings, for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors. | 3 |
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| Even our first parents ate themselves out of Paradise; and Job’s children junketed and feasted together often. Robert South. | 4 | | |
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