“I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?” IfsFeelsBookFeelingsTownsGenderRelatedRestaurantsJudgedEmbarrassmentLingeringSpinsters Author:Gene Weingarten
“How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.” FeelingsAgeFoolChecksRestaurantsCoatsPretense Author:Joan Rivers
“Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.” MenHumansFeelingsStuffBitsRaceExistenceEatingBuiltSatisfactionHuman RaceCharacteristicsRestaurantsCyclesGoing AwayDisappointedGreedyObservingBargainsHuman ExistenceWaiterDisillusioned Book:A Fairly Honourable Defeat Source: A Fairly Honourable Defeat