"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters."

-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Memorable Quotes #Jitters Quotes #Dinner Quotes

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
“To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.”
“It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.”
“We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?”
“We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are members of the One Family. We must not take away the life of any creature. Indeed, we must never take away that which we cannot give. And as we cannot restore a dead creature to life, we have no right to take away its' life.”
“We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.”
“For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.”
“Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.”

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