Quotes About Conviviality

I like parties. I like talking and conversations.

I don't go out - ever. I'm lucky enough to have awesome friends, and we always end up at someone's house. We're big house-party guys.

I drink a lot of beer.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

creation: "If I could not go to heaven but with a party," proclaimed Thomas Jefferson, "I would not go there at all."1

Judd: I like to be here until people really want to leave. But that's kind of how I am as a person. That's why my movies are too long. That's why I eat too much.

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.

an excuse to bring out the bottle of sherry and visit

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

Civilization as well as civility thrive where there is a pot of beer.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

D'Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he'll be his usual charming self by morning.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.