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host
«I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table / Four and I'm under the host»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
at the most, four, host, lady, table, Take One, The Host, under-the-table
«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, banal, cling, cling to, corpse, corrupt, devote, enjoyments, gnawing, gnaws, host, passionate, petty, worms, wretchedly
«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
administering, anonymous, Body of, digging, enlightened, filter, filtered, filtering, filters, funds, here and there, honorably, host, magazine, official, patron, patrons, pockets, public-spirited, publication, publications, public funds, scruple, scruples, spirited, strike home, striking
«I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils.»
«I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests; / And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham; / And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.»
«Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Illness
| Keywords:
bother, host, illness, inhospitable
«Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.»
«Souls of poets dead and gone, / What Elysium have ye known, / Happy field or mossy cavern, / Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? / Have ye tippled drink more fine / Than mine host's Canary wine?»
«My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
as such, firmly, gangster, gangsters, host, institute, instituted, Pasteur, relatively, smallpox, smallpox virus, sneer, sneering, stable, symbiosis, that is to say, The Other Half, viruses
«Now for the tea of our host Now for the rollicking bun, Now for the muffin and toast, Now for the gay Sally Lunn!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bun, buns, host, muffin, muffins, rollicking, sallied, sallies, sally, Sally Lunn, toast