Blue Christmas (2006).
“That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.”
Facile contemnitur clericus, qui saepe vocatus ad prandium, ire non recusat.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 52
Letters
“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)
“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”
Fran Lebowitz book Social Studies
"Parental Guidance".
Social Studies (1981)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
“Liberace: Would you like to stay for dinner, Jack?”
Jack Benny (1894–1974) comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
“You invite no man to dinner, Cotta, but your bath-companion; the baths alone provide you with a guest. I was wondering why you had never asked me; now I understand that when naked I displeased you.”
Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris
et dant convivam balnea sola tibi
mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses:
iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.
Martial book Epigrammata
Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris
et dant convivam balnea sola tibi
mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses:
iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.
I, 23 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Statement by the President on the Occasion of Ramadan (11 August 2010) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/08/11/statement-president-occasion-ramadan <br class="br">2010
