Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
I've waited all my life to say this. . . I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.
Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.
Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.
I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.
The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.
We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. . . . In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.
I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.
God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down.