Party Invitation

Many seek good nights and lose good days. – Dutch Proverb [Quoted in P.J. HarrebomÃ©e, Spreekwoordenboek der Nederlandsche t

Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good. – French Proverb

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

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. – Don Marquis

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. – Dave Barry

When the wine goes in, strange things come out. – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. – Desiderius Erasmus

To good eating belongs good drinking. – German Proverb

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

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. – George Gordon, Lord Byron

I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. – Nancie J. Carmody

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana, "War Shrines," Soliloquies in England and Later Solilo

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. – Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"

Remember: “I” before “E,” except in Budweiser. – Author Unknown

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down. – Phyllis Diller