My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Guests
Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs. – Maarten Maartens Category: Guests
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. – Ward McAllister Category: Guests
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. – Benjamin Franklin Category: Discontent
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. – William R. Inge Category: Patriotism
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth — anonymously and posthumously. – Thomas Sowell Category: Honesty
