Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

New Year's Day

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

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

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

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.