A Banquet is dinner during which you must be aware of indigestion brought about by speeches.

A Banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging.

A Banquet is a $10 dinner served in sufficient numbers to enable the caterer to charge $50 for it.

A Banquet is an affair at which a man may insist that he isn’t much of a speaker, then gets up and spends two hours trying to prove it.

The Crowd is always wrong. Wisdom is doing everything it does not do.

The Crowd is always a mass grave that death never visited.

A Crowd is not company.

The Crowd is chaotic by nature — Nothing is so uncertain or so inestimable as the disposition of a crowd.

Exhaustion is constant in life — Life is one long process of getting tired.

Exhaustion is a distorter of time and space — the mile is long to him who is tired

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

Exhaustion is sufficient cause for the hospitalization of a celebrity, but the normal state of existence for the rest of the working world.