What are parties?

Famous quotes containing the word parties:

“I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)

“Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)