Memorial Quote by Harold MacMillan Download Open image “Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.” — Harold MacMillan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memorial Memorial service Memorial Services
Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts. — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
“We do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday parties.” — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
“Funerals and memorial services are something that have to be gotten through. They honor the dead, but they’re for the living.” — J.A. Jance Copy Share Image
The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also… — Harold Macmillan Copy Share Image
Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial,… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Today isn't just another day off, it's a day to remember those who have sacrificed their life for your FREEDOM. Happy Memorial Day! — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and… — Richard Hovey Copy Share Image
CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters paid a… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the… — Susan Eisenhower Copy Share Image
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
