Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

  A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Diogenes. vi.