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As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it. (Quote by - Robert Burton)

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

On such an occasion as this, All time and nonsense scorning, Nothing shall come amiss, And we won't go home till morning. (Quote by - John Baldwin Buckstone)

We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'er he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)

The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty. (Quote by - John Baldwin Buckstone)

Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

Not fewer than three nor more than nine. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. (Quote by - Bible)

There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

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