“Traditionally, a luncheon is a lunch that takes an eon.”
Judith Martin (1938) American etiquette expert
Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
“Take an Indian home to lunch.”
When asked how the USA should celebrate the Bicentennial, as quoted in Avant Garde magazine (March 1968)
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Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
Review of her poetry publications in *[Das, Sisir Kumar, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy, http://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC, 1 January 1995, Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, 184]
John Banville (1945) Irish writer
How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin (2012)
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Burn for Me
Alan Guth (1947) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
as quoted by [Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1988, 0-553-34614-8, 129]
“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Also often misattributed to Robert A. Heinlein because both helped popularize the expression – Friedman with a book with that title. The phrase actually dates to at least the 1930s.
Misattributed
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Reply to King George VI, on a cold morning at the airport. The King had asked if Churchill would take something to warm himself. As cited in Man of the Century (2002), Ramsden, Columbia University Press, p. 134 ISBN 0231131062
Post-war years (1945–1955)
