“ A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. Ward Mcallister
“ The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal. Ward Mcallister
“ There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the spring and early summer, and even then it is too satisfying, nut sufficiently delicate. The man who gives salmon during the winter, I care not what sauce he serves with it, does an injury to himself and his guests. Ward Mcallister
“ Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. Charles Dickens Writer
“ If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. John Gay Poet
“ By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with. Duke Ellington Composer
“ If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money. Serena Williams Tennis Player
“ Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race. Al-Maʿarri Philosopher
“ No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President