Ward McAllister famous quotes

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
-- Ward McAllister

#Dinner #Sacred #Accepted

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

#Summer #Spring #Winter

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

#People #Elements #Debt

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
-- Ward McAllister

#Men #Dollars #Rich

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.