The L ismy shepherd; Ishall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valleyof theshadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the L for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 23:1^6.

   We do not presume to come to this thyTable,O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies.We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thyTable.But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Holy Communion, Prayer of Humble  Access.

Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me: thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 23:5.

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

-Broyard, Anatole
  Aroused by Books.

A group of senators, bleary eyed for lack of sleep, will have to sit down at about two o'clock in the morning around a table in a smoke-filled room in some hotel, and decide the nomination.

-Daugherty, Harry Micajah
  On the Republicans' failure to choose a presidential candidate at their convention.

Miss Bolo rose from thetable considerablyagitated, and went straight home, ina flood of tears, and a sedan chair.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.35.

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917), opening lines.

I reside at Table Mountain, and my name isTruthful James; I am not up to small deceit or any sinful games.

-Harte, (Francis) Bret
  'The Society upon the Stanislaus', stanza1.

Tomorrow I'll sit at the table When company comes Nobody'll dare Say to me, 'Eat in the kitchen' Then.

-Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston
  'I, Too', in Survey Graphic, Mar.

I have a dream that one day†the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

-King, Martin LutherJr
  Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28  Aug, during the March on Washington.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

-Mikes, George
  How to Be an  Alien.

The white saucer like some full moon descends At last from the clouds of the table above.

-Monro, Harold Edward
  'Milk for the Cat'.

The Admiral said,'You could never callö I assure you it would not do at all! She gets down from the table without saying 'please', Forgets her prayers and to cross herT's, In short, her scandalous reputation Has shocked the whole of the Hellish nation'.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'En Famille'.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.5,'Whole Duty of Children'.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself to be my master. I want the full menu of rights.

-Tutu, Desmond Mpilo
  NBC News, 9 Jan.