Party Invitations Quotes

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Gossip, Tea

  'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Hilarious, Humorous

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• Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Lying, Party

  "The Flaw in Paganism" l. 1 (1931)

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• After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Humorous

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• Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

  Lord Byron

  Party, Drunk, Firsts

  "'Tis a strange serpent - 10 of the most entertaining drinking bouts in literature" by Mark Forsyth, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2017.

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• Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

  Fred Allen

  Party, Men, People

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• Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.274, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Party, Independent, Heard

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “Vile Bodies”, p.23, Obelix Books

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• [N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Fun, Party, Folly

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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• Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
  Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.106, DEBOLS!LLO

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

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• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  George Santayana

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Stress, Men

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• There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Success, Stress, Labor Day

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