supper quotes

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Apophthegms.

Well, maybe like Casy says, a fellowain't got a soul of his own, but on'ya piece of a big oneöan thenö† Then it don'matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be everywhereöwherever you look.Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.Wherever they's a cop beatin'up aguy,I'll bethere.If Casyknowed, why,I'll be inthewayguysyell whenthey'remad an'öI'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an'they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they buildöwhy, I'll be there. See?

-Steinbeck,John Ernest
  The Grapes ofWrath, ch.28.

   After supper Pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one delirium tremens.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.6.

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