A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

It's hard to know what's right in this life, ' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"P459

I have shed many tears.I have been broken in my spirit.But through it all, God's grace have lifted my soul.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

I don't have regrets because they are negative.

Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find its meaning.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.