“Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.”
Source: Eaters of the Dead
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American author, screenwriter, film producer 1942–2008Related quotes

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 182.

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 314.

Speech at the Guildhall, London (9 November 1914), see [Swatridge, Colin, Oxford Guide to Effective Argument and Critical Thinking, https://books.google.com/books?id=fGbrAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT51, 2014, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-165180-9, 51]
Prime Minister

“Don't even step out of your garden gate until this matter has been clarified.”
To Dr. Peter Kleist. Quoted in " The Last 100 Days" - by John Toland - 1966
“An attractive woman likes feminine company until she's twenty, and after she's twenty-five.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

“the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk”