Apt sentiments in connection with each course add much to the interest or amusement of guests, but they must be chosen intelligently.
The Dinner.
If the dinner be to a guest of honor, have something like this at the head of the menu:
"I beseech you all be better known to this gentleman."—Shakespeare.
SAUCE
"Come, gentlemen!! Here's sauce for the gods."
"Let hunger move thy appetite, not savory sauce."
—Babee's Book.
WELSH RAREBIT
"A man can die but once."—Henry IV.
"Cowards die many times—the truly valiant never taste death but once."—Shakespeare.