Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:   party
Things to ponder every Birthday: If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
~Euripedes

I live for the nights I can’t remember with the people I’ll never forget.
~Toby Keith

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

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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

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Prewritten Prompt for next time:   magic

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Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s noisy party than being there.
~Franklin P Jones

If you think you’ll regret something in the morning, sleep late.
~unknown

No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep.
~errmac

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The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much. Then again, don’t drink too little.
~Hermann Smith-Johannson

Never miss a party…good for the nerves — like celery.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

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Hear no evil, speak no evil and you’ll never be invited to a party.
~Oscar Wilde

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
~W Somerset Maugham

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
~Elsa Maxwell

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If you’re not invited to the party, throw your own.
~Diahann Carroll

When life gives you lemons, find someone who has vodka and throw a party.
~Charith Thilina

I want everyone in the world to stop waiting for the right reason to throw a party, and just…throw a party! Create your own occasion, because every single day is worth celebrating.
~David Burtka

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”
~Robin Williams

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~Oprah Winfrey

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Posted From The Grove

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
~Vanilla Ice

Every few years I’ll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.
~Jeff Ament

I thought that the older I got, that partying would change – and it has – in the way that now I know how to party.
~Brendon Urie

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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
~Katharine Hepburn

I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.
~Eli Broad

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The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
~Katherine Whitehorn

When you’re the most happening person at the party, it’s time to leave.
~Kelly Cutrone

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
~Gary Larson

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
~Wilson Mizner

She’s afraid that if she leaves, she’ll become the life of the party.
~Groucho Marx

I don’t like parties past 2 am. Then it’s all losers and weirdos.
~Paris Hilton

Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.
~David Brown

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Beware of having a party at all on Saturday night! You may not live to see daylight!
~Stephen A Miller/John Beaird

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

The man who does not 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

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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
~Carol Matthau

There’s always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
~Gavin DeGraw

For every year of life we light
A candle on your cake
To mark the simple sort of progress
Anyone can make,
And then, to test your nerve or give
A proper view of death,
You’re asked to blow each light, each year,
Out with your own breath.
~James Simmons

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I suppose it’s possible that the Sundance Kid didn’t like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year — but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West “a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors?”
~Calvin Trillin

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
~Dag Hammarskjold

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
~George Carlin

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it’s started and leave before it’s finished.
~Elsa Maxwell

Partying is such sweet sorrow.
~Robert Byrne

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~Optical Arts:  Fugue in A Major   (2:14)   ends in a quote
https://vimeo.com/553313254

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~Corrie FrancisParks:  Foreign Exchange   (5:45)   begins with a quote
https://vimeo.com/561365965

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~Popular Science:  Best Way to Reheat Pizza  (out of 9 methods tried)
https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/best-reheat-pizza/?utm_source

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~1w3rpass:  Yes, Prime Minister — The need to know   (4:34)   English humour, political, complete w/ convoluted thinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX45hc0aZt0&app

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There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
~Bill Watterson

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.
~Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
~Annie Dillard

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
~George Santayana

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I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That’s the only rule, to have fun.
~Mayer Hawthorne

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

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It’s not about going to a party. It’s life as a party.
~Diane Von Furstenberg

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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

I’ve lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
~Marat Safin

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing, and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.
~Rhys Ifans

Study hard, but party harder.
~Nicole Polizzi

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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

I’m gonna party, see how intoxicated I can get and how many rules I can flaunt. That’s my motto.
~H G Bissinger

You gotta have life your way. If you ain’t losing your mind, you ain’t partying right.
~Young Jeezy

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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Live to work. Work to party. Party to live.
~Yevgen Reztsov

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
~Mason Cooley

That’s what life is all about: Let’s have a party. Let’s have it tonight.
~Lilly Pulitzer

When all else fails, throw a party!
~Eugene Walter

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Life is a party. Dress for it.
~Audrey Hepburn

Life is short, wear your party pants.
~Loretta LaRoche

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.
~Lemony Snicket

Of all the pretenses of the formal party season, the hardest, I find, is pretending that your clothes fit.
~Robert Brault

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A House Party consists, broadly speaking, of a company of from four to twenty guests gathered together in the Wilderness in the name of Hospitality for a spirited contest in Wardrobes and Parlor Tricks.
~Gideon Wurdz

I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I’d like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
~Katherine Jenkins

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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
~Jane Austen

I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

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VIDEO:

So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn’t want to drive there.
~Sam Kinison

I can’t give parties. It’s so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I’m using them or something. I just can’t stand it.
~Andy Warhol

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

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.
~Dominick Dunne

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

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that’s what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
~Ina Garten

I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.
~Stephanie Clifford

Every time a champagne bottle pops, a party angel gets its wings.
~Terri Guillemets

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Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!
~Andy Cohen

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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When we’re discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, ‘good value for money,’ which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.
~Roger Ebert

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
~George Eliot

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Callous comedies  (all others being too juvenile or risqué)

~Omeleto:  Writer’s Workshop   (11:31)    writer’s party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvIiQQwDYnc

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~Jonathan Wilhelmsson:  Untitled Earth Sim 64   (6:38)   introspective, not what it seems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQ_Wd_r6gk

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~Omeleto:  The Going Away Party   (9:30)   pride month — and this is funny?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxNjf1upan0&t=68s

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I haven’t seen this many men dressed as women since my bachelor party.
~Bruce Willis

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.
~Bill Murray

Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me.
~Stephanie Meyer

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.
~Jennifer Aniston

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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don’t bring presents.
~Zig Ziglar

It’s time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.
~Louie Giglio

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
~Regina Brett

Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I’ve thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I’m also doing really well. I’d be a robot if I said I didn’t feel moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment… [but] You joke and say, ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’.
~Jennifer Aniston

Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy.
~Kristin Armstrong

I love pity parties. I wish I’d brought hats.
~Richelle Mead

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As everyone knows, although no one knows quite why, young girls like to sleep at one another’s homes. This peculiarity sometimes manifests itself in something called a “slumber party,” in which numbers of girls in nightdress stretch out on somebody’s parlor floor to drink hot cocoa, talk about boys, giggle, throw pillows, tell ghost stories and otherwise work themselves into a state of adolescent hysteria that forfends sleep. They feel terrible the next morning.
~Life Goes to a Slumber Party

You will suggest a hot cocoa party instead. Her bright blue eyes will shine feverishly, and as she nods with uncontainable energy.
~Abigail Clarkin

That was where friendships were smelted from unrefined ore into pure metal: two girls staying up past their bedtime, painting one another’s nails, trying on one another’s clothes, wondering about ghosts, confiding secrets, swapping tokens of undying affection, hours of whispering in the darkness.
~Abby Geni

How little sleep one got at a slumber party is a matter of great pride and an index of the success of the party.
~Elizabeth Radin Simons

Slumber parties for young girls are the rage by the time they are eight or nine years old. Similar events involving the fellows are typically called “sleepovers.” Boys get together and camp out in backyards or nearby lakeshores.
~William Lynwood Montell

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MUSIC:

Birthdays are nature’s way of telling you to eat more cake.
~Jo Brand

A party without cake is just a meeting.
~Julia Child

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don’t know what it is, anybody’s only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.
~Cat Deeley

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Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.
~Margaret Cho

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.
~Jarod Kintz

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
~Jean Paul Richter

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I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn’t. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I’m doing by how many people remember; it’s like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up.
~Lorrie Moore

One of the sadder things, I think,
Is how our birthdays slowly sink:
Presents and parties disappear,
The cards grow fewer year by year.
~Philip Larkin

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
~Mark Twain

My birthday was a natural disaster, a shower of paper, full of flattery, under which one almost drowned.
~Albert Einstein

What is there to celebrate? Birthdays are automatic things. Anyway, birthdays are for children.
~Albert Einstein

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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
~Unknown Author

Don’t just count your years, make your years count.
~George Merideth

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
~Marie Dressler

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
~Chili Davis

Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
~Joan Collins

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The last birthday that’s any good is 23.
~Andy Rooney

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I’m still pretty.
~Muhammad Ali

At age fifty, every man has the face he deserves.
~George Orwell

One starts to get young at the age of sixty.
~Pablo Picasso

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Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.
~Ralph Parlette

Happy Birthday, Johnny,
Live beyond your income,
Travel for enjoyment,
Follow your own nose.
~W H Auden

The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.
~Robert Orben

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
~Madeleine L’Engle

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
~Larry Lorenzoni

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you get un-birthday presents… And only one for birthday presents, you know.
~Lewis Carroll

The way I see it, you should live every day like it’s your birthday.
~Paris Hilton

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

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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday, especially if it was one’s own, brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
~Thomas Moore

My Birthday! What a different sound that word had in my youthful ear.
~Malcolm Forbes

There is still no cure for the common birthday.
~John Glenn

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternatives.
~Cato

30 was the best year of my life until the next year and then the next. Every year since 30 has been the best year.
~Bonnidette Lantz

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
~Richard Bach

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Enjoy how sweet, how thoughtful, how kind I’m being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it’s back to the same old crap.
~Melvin Helitzer

What different dooms our birthdays bring!
~Thomas Hood

Do you count your birthdays thankfully?
~Horace

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~Ricky Nelson:  Garden Party, feat. Matthew, Gunnar & Sam   (4:04)   Ricky’s three sons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShwSZtDdl3M

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~Lesley Gore:  It’s My Party   (2:58)   later in life and better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6KhXo13_H0

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~Leslie Gore, feat. Amy Winehouse:  It’s My Party   (2:40)   w/ mixed clips, prescient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTm3GQg51JU

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~Billie Eilish:  when the party’s over   (3:13)   messy emotions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbMwTqkKSps

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~The Beatles:  I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party, feat. Acoustic Beatles Band   (2:21)   close your eyes, it’s them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=528Ebq7AkZk

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~LMFAO:  Party Rock Anthem   (6:15)   goofy fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8

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~Sam Cooke:  Having a Party, feat. Heidi Goodwin   (2:44)   home grown cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-63VKH4u6oI

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~Mick Jagger:  Party Doll   (5:15)    w/ clips in the bleak outback, also live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2igvDZ7nsno

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~Mick Jagger:  Party Doll   (5:13)   Marilyn Monroe tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzD0nd7tzNI

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~Shania Twain:  Party For Two   (3:32)   saucy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzD0nd7tzNI

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Girls Night Out x 3

~Rihanna:  Don’t Stop The Music   (3:53)   high energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd8jh9QYfEs

~Pink:  Get The Party Started   (3:51)   party central
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW1dbiD_zDk

~The Black Eyed Peas:  Don’t Stop The Party   (6:18)   exotic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9LH_y159sg

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My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.
~Jennifer Aniston

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
~W H Auden

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I’ve seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
~Anne Lamott

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The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is — and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn’t even give me her telephone number — and she wrote in her diary: “A funny little man asked me to marry him.”
~Julian Fellowes

Believing, hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear…
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~Martial

I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but in the end another soul can be fundamentally unknowable.
~Geraldine Brooks

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A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.
~Robert Brault

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

I can always tell what kind of a time I’m having at a party by the look on my wife’s face.
~John Bedrosian

The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
~E Joseph Cossman

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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
~Dorothy Parker

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
~Jean Paul

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
~Marilyn Monroe

Recently I heard a ‘wise guy’ story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It’s an interesting story, but I don’t know twenty-five men I’d want to invite to a party.
~Joan Crawford

No man does right by a woman at a party.
~Harry Golden

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I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime.
~Claire Danes

Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.
~Verna Myers

Dancing – that’s really what I do at parties. I dance and I hang out with friends. That’s my partying.
~Rebecca Black

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet…
~Lord Byron

We’re fools whether or not we dance, so we may as well dance.
~Chez Goldberg

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.
~Rasheed Ogunlaru

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.
~Jeanne C Stein

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I’m six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
~Darryl Dawkins

I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson’s show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.
~Ellen DeGeneres

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For weeks I’ve been telling him not to buy anything for my birthday, and he still forgot to bring me something.
~Tanya Noe

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
~Robert Frost

It’s an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn’t had a birthday in seven years.
~Robert Orben

She claims she just turned thirty, but it must have been a U-turn!
~Elmer Pasta

If you lie about your age on your birthday, make sure you choose a comfortable number.
~Unknown Author

I’m sixty-five, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I’d only be forty-eight.
~James Thurber

At another year
I would not boggle
Except that when I jog
I joggle.
~Ogden Nash

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Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
~Elayne Boosler

Confucius say: Man who put face in bowl get punch in nose.
~Author unknown

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

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Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.
~Jack Handey

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

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What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
~Phyllis Diller

You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you’re not a professional anymore.
~Jeff Foxworthy

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At his birthday party the guests were overcome with the heat of the candles. He feels like the liberty bell – old, heavy, and slightly cracked.
~A Daniel Goldsmith

You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
~Bob Hope

You know how you tell when you’re getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.
~Red Skelton

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© Greg Thweatt

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I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there’s going to be a dinner.
~Gilbert Gottfried

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.
~Elia Kazan

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I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.
~Joe Manchin

When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That’s its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.
~Charles Krauthammer

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
~H L Mencken

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.
~Nelson A Miles

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We’ve never claimed more, and we’ve never had less.
~Jonathan Safran Foer

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
~Newt Gingrich

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
~Tony Blair

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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Party spirit enlists a man’s virtues in the cause of his vices.
~Richard Whately

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.
~Joseph Addison

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
~Cesare Pavese

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
~Richard Whately

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

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it’s all about what’s good for the party and not necessarily what’s good for the country.
~Ricardo Montalban

I hate politics. It’s slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don’t like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you’re not on my side, you’re the enemy.
~Mark Cuban

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
~Thomas Jefferson

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The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
~Gerald R Ford

Political parties don’t work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
~Tony Abbott

You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
~Rand Paul

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
~John Arbuthnot

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
~Ambrose Bierce

I sometimes think that I didn’t leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.
~Hillary Clinton

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
~Jackie Kennedy

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.
~Lyndon B Johnson

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
~William Jennings Bryan

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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

The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one.
~Barry Crimmins

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs – the adversary is the world of finance.
~Francois Hollande

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I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.
~William H Seward

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

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
~James Russell Lowell

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Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
~Eugene McCarthy

There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.
~John Adams

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The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.
~Alan Grayson

There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get together to do something that is both stupid and evil, and that’s called Bipartisanship.
~Thomas Woods

The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote.
~Aaron Russo

The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election.
~Jill Stein

In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
~Noam Chomsky

Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.
~Pat Buchanan

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.
~Howard Zinn

Pay attention America. Third party might not win it this year, but we could be seeing the shift away from a two party system unfolding.
~Jill Stein

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As much as I cherish your [McCarthy’s] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.
~John Anderson

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.
~Stockwell Day

Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.
~Carroll Quigley

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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. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
~Penn Jillette

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
~Edmund Burke

Run for office? No. I’ve slept with too many women, I’ve done too many drugs, and I’ve been to too many parties.
~George Clooney

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@Writers Platform:

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
~Cyril Connolly

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

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

The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican party’ or ‘airplane food.’
~Johnny Depp

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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party – or a wallflower.
~Naomie Harris

I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I’ll go, but I’m not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality.
~Eva Green

I don’t go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.
~Candace Bushnell

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see — every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
~Graham Greene

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I’m making music for. You can’t just guess.
~Will.I.Am

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I want to go to a party where they got no guns
I want to rock with my band I want to have a lil fun
~Benjamin West/Ruston Samuel Kelly

You asked me to a party
To a house just by the moon
You gave me silver loving
The end was all too soon
~Jack Bruce/Pete Constantine Brown

The party will open its season
And the invitees spread their decorations
Wait,
We will pack this night with lamps of music,
draw with iris cities for lovers and
distribute the dream
children to the poor;
So be away from the grief and sadness,
and embrace my soul.
~Hassan Hegazy

Oh, this party is starting to go
Over the top into I don’t know
How many people are here?
Did you say we’re already ‘outta beer?’
~Robert Curran

The party’s a bore
It’s bound to get worse
Let’s sneak out somewhere
And engage in our own celebration
~James Bracken

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Prewritten Prompt:   party

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I had an epiphany a few years ago when I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
~Moby

I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don’t care. For me, it’s really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.
~Kesha

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
~George Santayana

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

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Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody’s talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.
~Maureen Dowd

There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting — not needing — the constant jostle and noise of a party or bar or… whatever.
~Charles De Lint

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they’re the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.
Jeffrey Kluger

I still get excited over the idea of going to a party in a costume. I was also looking forward to attending social events where alcohol wasn’t the main attraction.
~Lindsey Stirling/Brooke S Passey

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I like to party, and by party I mean a slumber party for one with plenty of books to read.
~WritersWrite.co.za

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
~Roy Blount, Jr

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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

Friends will always be there for the party. REAL friends will be there after the party
~Bray Love

It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.
~Maria Sharapova

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The EXERCISE:

heaven scent

come play with me
games that we’ll invent
call it sport
me winning thee
a party with intent

come paint with me
draw closer with assent
call it art
bronzed for eternity
poetry as cement

come stay with me
say that you’ll relent
call it love
become a part of me
my heart and pay no rent

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Love and Country

Fallen parties of the first part
Who state in full, our united state
Failed temptations of the heart
Our time to choose, it’s make or break

We tear apart, bleed, start to shred
Or we stay wed and share our bed
Live out our dream or part instead

Defy realpolitik for real romance
Deny disputes to share a dance
Deciding now our only chance

Switch off our needy love of light
Close tight our doors on each other
Bounce off our walls alone at night
Fall blindly, lonely, all together

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The Gift

Smiles arrive in tinfoil wrapping
Birthday party comes a happening
In-flesh presence serve as presents
Hugs exchange our selves in essence
Safe one-second two armed attack
Morse Code tap-tapping on my back
Meaningless hug that I shrug off
Pointless touch ain’t near enuff

Yet you hold on one second longer
Warm embrace made bonding stronger
No vain inane touch at being held
Smiles feel real as mates we meld

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Diagnosis

Scheduled Rx: Date set
Section II: Undying Love
Paragraph 3: Promissory Note
Pledged to Wed: You and me
Part E: Cancelled

Vow to Marry: Yet…
You hedged: Your bet
Claimed: Lack of spontaneity
Failed: Joys of serendipity

Then: Love’s no-surprise
When: Light fled your eyes
How: Bright spark’s demise
Why: Foregone boredom cries
Symptoms: Sighs then lies
This the way our cancer dies

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RSVP

Too bleak the need, the plan too bland
Then too bent from pent-up being-grand
Results too themed, too self-indulgent
Glazed eyes scanning, graze refulgent
At Friday’s weekly mixer-blender
Preceding Saturday’s fun extender

When party nights prove much too much
And life’s weekly cure needs a crutch
Weekly work loads need to party hardy
Leads to craving Sunday’s Bloody Mary
Takes a weakened weekend’s fatal drug
Trades mortal shrug for a lover’s hug

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5-7-5

Best. Party. Evah!
uninvited? pity that
dry introvert smile

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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
~Henry Fielding

Tea is so tame. A cocktail is lots more naughty.
~Richard Florance

I had a little tea party
This afternoon at three.
‘Twas very small–
Three guest in all–
Just I, myself and me.
Myself ate all the sandwiches,
While I drank up the tea;
‘Twas also I who ate the pie
And passed the cake to me.
~Jessica Nelson North

But I always say, one’s company, two’s a crowd, and three’s a party.
~Andy Warhol

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The more you can plan and do ahead of time, the more you’ll be able to enjoy your own party.
~David Burtka

A successful party is much more about the sum of it’s parts than it is about just one detail.
~David Burtka

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So mayst thou live, dear! many years,
In all the bliss that life endears,
Not without smiles, nor yet from tears
Too strictly kept:
When first thy infant littleness
I folded in my fond caress,
The greatest proof of happiness
Was this — I wept.
~Thomas Hood

Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born,
The morning-stars their ancient music make.
~James Russell Lowell

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
~William Shakespeare

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come.
~William Wordsworth

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.
~Frederick Leboyer

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Many seek good nights and lose good days.
~Dutch saying

To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life’s problems.
~Homer Simpson

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

The road goes on forever, and the party never ends.
~Robert Earl Keen

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