Party Quotes

• Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Law, Political, Unemployment

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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• Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight, party tonight.

  Drake

  Life, Humble, Advice

  Song: The Real Her, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

  Andy Warhol

  Two, Three, Crowds

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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• Never miss a party if you can make it!

  Sam Berns

  Missing, Ifs

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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, Laughing

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

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• Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Motivational, Easter

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• I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Imagination, Secret

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.410, Cambridge University Press

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• Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Speak No Evil, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

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  I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

  Ron White

  Inspirational, Funny, Encouraging

  "Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again". Comedy, Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Witty, Men

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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  Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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• The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, God, Christian

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime.

  Claire Danes

  Dance Party, I Can

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave

  Kelly Cutrone

  Time To Leave, Persons, Happenings

  Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

  Andy Warhol

  Funny, Dog, Art

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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• Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Time, Lying, Night

  Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.

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• The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

  George Washington

  Country, Revenge, Age

  United States. President, George Washington, United States (1825). “The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens”, p.104

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• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Family, Book, Beer

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Clever, Happy New Year

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 17 (written in 1896)

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• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  Ralph Nader

  Doors, Differences, Politics

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• How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

  Joseph Addison

  Liars, Men, Honor

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator”, p.601

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