From Should lunch breaks be mandatory?
A number of high-profile names have mused about the midday meal...
"Lunch is for wimps" - Gordon Gekko, character in 1987 film Wall Street
"There's no such thing as a free lunch" - popularised by Milton Friedman, economist
"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch" - Orson Welles, actor and director
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it" - Aldous Huxley, author
"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex" - Erma Bombeck, journalist
"Office hours are from 12 to 1, with an hour off for lunch" - George S Kaufman, playwright
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