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There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

Benjamin Franklin

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Adelle Davis

There is no free lunch.

Milton Friedman

We always get together every two weeks and have dinner or lunch at our house and it's not going to be good that we can't do that now. It's going to be hard and it's going to be tough.

Shannon Johnson

Women can have this type of treatment during their lunch hour, and then go back and do all of their regular activities.

Tina Alster

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

Jilly Cooper

I always have a glass of Houlton Farms chocolate milk for lunch. I just love the taste.

Perry Lilley

Lunch is for wimps.

Oliver Stone

I'm the grilled cheese specialist so I make that and soup for lunch. Then we either take a nap or rest.

Tylor Keller

If their fire isn't hot, their lunch isn't very hot either.

Bob Stubbs

We wanted to help create a healthy environment for students and help them learn healthy behaviors. A cookie is not bad for you, but if you have three cookies for lunch, it is not a good thing.

Donnell Barton

During the lunch shifts, students slowly come over after they finish eating and socializing.

Andrea Flynn

Woodland High has always been an open campus, but next fall it will begin to close. Ninth-graders and 10th-graders will not have that freedom (to leave at lunch).

Rob Ball

There's no time anymore for a long lunch -- it cuts too much into the workday. It's not rational, it's not efficient, and it does not pay in terms of family life.

Pasqual Maragall

At most, you're looking at 300 calories and that's not really much for lunch, so you can eat it and an hour later you're gnawing the leg off your chair.

Leslie Bonci

The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.

Christopher Hampton

The slices are thin, and the sauce is delicious. It is a very good place for lunch.

Kevin Lyons

Don't make any big investments. Have lunch with a friend one day a week, but don't buy a Mercedes.

Kerry Hannon

We found consistently less than one microgram of accessible lead in these vinyl lunch boxes. That is not a toxic level and it is a low level.

Patti Davis

Unless we put a purple stamp on the forehead of every freshman and have security at every door, we cannot keep them from leaving at lunch.

Ron Gruwell

Some people just come in for breakfast and leave or come in for lunch and leave.

Deb Trine

We feel as though we stole the big gorilla's lunch.

Grant Newton

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Orson Welles

I only come for breakfast and lunch.

Bob Mckenna

Most days, we'd walk to school and go home for lunch. When the weather was bad, we'd take our lunch.

Reuben Bernhardt

It would be a big benefit to be in the same facility. It's the ability to have hallway meetings, lunch room meetings. It's the ability to ask simple questions.

Tom Hill

He comes to practice with a big old lunch pail and sweats on.

Kyle Goodrich

It's maybe that mid-afternoon snack attack or maybe you want that call before lunch.

Tom Seddon

And you can get a sit-down [meal] usually much cheaper at lunch than you can at dinner. So why not splurge on the midday meal and then try to economize later in the day?

Robert Niles

Nighttime business is slower, but my lunch business has been good.

Victor Mayeron

The bet was that you were going to take me to lunch or dinner, ... So what's it going to be?

Mike Wallace

We had to turn the electricity and that wouldn't allow us to make lunch.

Wayne Alexander

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.

Michael Friedman

Keyboards are a lunch counter for germs. We turn them over in a lot of studies and we are amazed at what comes out of a keyboard.

Charles Gerba

Instead of just stopping for lunch the kids swooped in and grabbed a handful, ... These guys all worked like Trojans.

John Ellis

Lunch (at the two elementary schools) was a little longer than normal, but it will be until they get used to it. But they were hanging in there.

Jeffrey Clark

We're working on getting staff and inventory for a breakfast and lunch menu.

Susan Maruca

Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.

Paul Mcculley

We weren't coming down here to eat a box lunch, get on the bus and go home. We came to Norman to win the football game ... and our guys played their heart out.

Steve Kragthorpe

We'd go to a beautiful lunch, the best bars, drink their fancy drinks. We're all underage, first of all. We were having a blast and moving on to the next place. He would pick up the tab.

Bart Lally

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

Shelly Winters

We'll go have some lunch.

Michael Gibson

Now, I can go to lunch.

Judy Dean

This jury was out to lunch.

Curtis Sliwa

Because of our society and schedules, we don't have time to sit down and eat a two-hour lunch.

Tiana Lee

There is no such thing as a free lunch. What did this donation buy?

Andrew Bartlett

Can I take you to lunch sometime?

Jose Canseco

No. We're going to lunch after this.

Sean Hayes

I have lunch with him pretty much every day. There are not many people that wanted it as bad.

Amanda Waldenmaier

Lunch is provided, poles are provided; everything is free at this event.

Shelly Smith

He didn't want her to be around her friends. I used to call her everyday until she said 'don't, because he checks the caller ID at lunch.' I just stayed away because I didn't want to hurt her feelings.

Cathy Craft

I start early - usually by 5 am, and work through to 5 pm, with breaks for lunch, boring exercise, etc etc. But it's usually a full day.

Bernard Cornwell

Set a time and keep it as if it were a really important appointment. You will fail if you say you will work out when you have time. There will always be something else to do. Five a.m., 9 p.m., at lunch, during commercials … whenever you get a chance.

Mary Newell

We were actually wondering why we hadn't heard from them by 2 p.m. We thought they had stayed for lunch somewhere.

Frank Varosi

Sometimes I head up here to have lunch. I love this building - it's beautifully designed, spacious and gracious.

Donald P. Quinn

Unless you write down the amount, pay for it with a check and track it, the totals can easily get out of control. Five dollars for lunch, $3 for something cute ? it all adds up.

Sandra Langton

This complicates it a little. She can't have the school lunch because there's wheat on every plate. So I pack her lunch at home.

Lynn Wolter

Don't feel obligated to wake up 30 minutes later to get a little boxed lunch you don't want anyway.

Thom Nulty

We didn't do a huge junior business. We have business shoppers at the lunch-crunch period.

Diana Davis

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Bill Anderson

We also had a competition between the males and the females for ice cream at lunch. Many of the kids have been so generous. It is good seeing everybody rallying behind a great cause.

Justin Kean

Buy companies you believe in. Being a professional arbitrageur is a full-time job. It's not something an individual investor can do in his lunch break.

Scott Adelson

If they drink pop first, they might not even eat their lunch.

Deborah Wilcox Jamieson

We had to bring our lunch pails against two very good teams. Everyone contributed.

Perry Pooley

It doesn't matter whether I have 20 or 200 for lunch. If I don't have the equipment, how am I going to accomplish that?

Jacque Whiting

The lunch crowd has been very, very busy. They are all buying a lot of souvenirs to ... send to relatives.

Tim Piett

On that day the headmaster gave the school a special lunch with filet mignon and shrimp and lobster. It was a great way to celebrate.

John Puskar

Courtney. Then afterward we go and eat lunch together. We get along really well. It's pretty cool.

Sanja Tomasevic

The lab attendants yelled at us because it was their lunch hour.

Yanto Situmorang

Consumers will just skip lunch. We would call it a meal in a cup.

Robert Carter

We get to put our information on the tables. We get to use the PA system to make announcements about Montana during the lunch.

Jim Smitham

Every businessman over 50 should have a daily nap and nip-a short nap after lunch and a relaxing highball before dinner.

Dr. Sara Murray Jordan

The ETF thing really hit Vanguard in the solar plexus. They're worried about losing their lunch to Barclays.

Dan Wiener

Customers were sending my tea back because of the taste of it. On a day at lunch, we'll sell 100 bags of tea. Today, it was six.

Aaron Johnson

A lot of locals eat lunch every day, ... Some eat three times and others eat five times a week.

Derek Brown

It's nice because students can get a quick cup of coffee or lunch on their way to class.

Cori Donaghy

Everybody's after everybody's lunch, and that's absolutely true about this.

Donald Peterson

This is one more reason why (workers) won't have to leave downtown for lunch. And another reason to return there for dinner.

Jamie Stickel

One day at lunch, we got the idea of paying for business forms by offering advertising on the back side.

Larry Wolf

The employee may want the flexibility to work through lunch and get out early.

John Holub

Since I won't get to go into their homes, I really need to see from this journaling what the meal sizes at dinner are like. What are some of the foods they like and, for lunch, who brings lunch and who eats out?

Patti Milligan

We have a whole package to offer, not just a great lunch.

Sue Ernest

I was blown away. I knew the kids were really motivated. We had reached our goal before lunch and we only had two grade levels who came in with their money at that point.

Kyle Rigsby

You don't go out to lunch.

Kevin Mannix

Women would have fixed a lunch and brought it over, but these men mourn by fixing a tractor.

Gary Straquadine

It's just amazing how much food you go through in a day feeding 16 people breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Chris Thompson

All the Spanish and the black people eat lunch downstairs, and the white people eat upstairs.

Judy Vasquez

They want more. They're a corporate bully. They want our lunch money, our futures, our job protections.

Karen Schultz

I used to run around singing my life to myself. I'd be singing 'I'm going to fall down,' singing about what I was having for lunch, about how mean my brothers were.

Brown Johnson

That's hard to say. For lunch, I like the lasagna. For breakfast, biscuits and gravy.

Bob Mckenna

Fresh eggs, grits in the morning, red beans for lunch, smoked sausage we're getting.

Thomas Armstrong

We thought most people would be able to get to a computer during lunch. It's impossible to make everyone happy.

Martyna Pospieszalska

It's hard for me to believe that in a city of nearly 3 million people you can shoot someone down in broad daylight in downtown during lunch time and get away with it.

Sean Garcia

One young man I spoke to said he was sitting eating lunch, and then found that he was somewhere else.

Rhonda Cornum

There are kids who don't get on the free lunch, so they don't eat.

Suzanne Meyer

It gets crazy at lunch hour.

Jim Russell

It's going to be real nice. We are going to serve breakfast in the mornings and burgers at lunch.

Laura Anderson

The exciting thing is that people are beginning to rediscover lunch and are not afraid to linger. Certainly everybody leaves in a very happy state.

Lance Jefferson

There's no free lunch.

Robert Pozen

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

William Ruckelshaus

Everybody has been so welcoming here. We have breakfast, lunch and dinner, ... In New Orleans, I prayed for a cup of ice.

Gregory Jenkins

If I had that one right now, I'd go home at lunch to read it.

Sessalee Hensley

Usually by lunch, it's back to being all lovey-dovey again and us not being able to wait until we can see one another again. It's definitely a love-hate relationship in the morning, though.

Sara Hirth

It was a lunch. It happened. I paid my share.

Paul Holmes

Nobody's going to come here and eat our lunch.

Brian Goggin

Make sure they get to bed, that they have a good breakfast before lunch.

Susie Gex

We will cook and serve 10,000 meals Wednesday, ... Lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and dinner is from 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Stephen Moore

If this auction doesn't go well, you might want to take a long lunch then go home.

Kevin Giddis

We're talking about champions when there were real weight classes, too. Now, you can have a light lunch and be eligible to fight for a title in a heavier division.

Paul Rodriguez

The days of the liquid lunch are done. It is a different world these days.

Seth Cohen

Mostly, I haven't had any lunch. I ate an energy bar. It helped a little. That stopped me from gnawing on people's heads.

Ronnie Earle

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

Gerald R. Ford

So going from there to where they are now -- where it is acceptable for a man to nip off at lunch time and have a facial, or a pedicure -- is quite a journey.

Dylan Jones

I am so bummed out. I had gotten all excited about Catholicism again. I just loved all the people and ceremony of the last few weeks, all the hundreds of thousands in the square. I was out to lunch when I heard, 'It's the German.' You could just feel everyone groan.

Dominick Dunne

I think we'll have to bring our own jump ropes and things and we'll only have a 30-minute break for lunch.

Jessie Ling

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

National Lampoon

It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.

Robbie Coltrane

Some guy come up behind me [in the lunch line] and poked me with a needle. I just turned around and he looked all innocent like he didn't poke me.

Luis Lopez

We want to increase the number of people that eat on campus during lunch.

Richard Turnbull

You don't have time to eat lunch, you work 12 hours and then the first days you just try to keep busy.

Alex Perez

This is just an easy way for us to help, and it doesn't hurt for people to come in and have some lunch and dinner. It's a way to funnel their money down south.

Brenda Egenlauf

We honestly did not think the win would come so easily after the way they batted and reached 155 for two after lunch on the first day. Then, one bad shot changed everything and allowed us to come back.

Marvan Atapattu

I'm having way too much fun at this. And it's great to be back in Chicago. I get to lunch with Ray Meyer, my old DePaul coach, at least once a week.

George Mikan

We won't be having lunch when our customers are having theirs.

Mark Duffy

It was a big game for us. We let one get away at Bowdon and had our lunch handed to us against Bremen. It was time for us to respond and the kids really stepped up tonight.

Ed Clendenen

They'll also buy groceries and have lunch in town. They make a day of it.

Eanass Fahmy

People just lived better and better. It was like a free lunch for voters.

Zoltan Torok

People like to run over on their lunch hour and pick out a black author.

Zandra Blake

They're a lot braver than they used to be - they know they can find a job on their lunch break.

Eric Nelson

But what you can't do is be selling kids cookies at 10 o'clock in the morning so that they're not hungry at lunch.

Elliot Regenstein

The Ladies Who Lunch.

Elaine Stritch