Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
Women are jealous of cigars. . . they regard them as a strong rival.
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
Almost all women have hearts full of pity.
At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.
The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.
The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.