“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)
9 November 1665 http://books.google.com/books?id=azIEAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Strange+to+see+how+a+good+dinner+and+feasting+reconciles+everybody%22&pg=PA120#v=onepage <br class="br">Diary <br class="br">Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)
“Enough is as good as a feast.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“How bewitched I was! How could there be any good in a woman that everybody spoke ill of?”
Thomas Hardy book The Return of the Native
Bk. V, ch. 3
The Return of the Native (1878)
“6082. Enough’s as good as a Feast,
To one that’s not a Beast.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 1370. Enough's as good as a Feast.
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
Humming 7/4
Lyrics, My Story