"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death." Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Woman: "I've made a bet with a friend that I can get you to say at least three words this evening. What do you say to that?"
  • Calvin Coolidge: "You lose."
    (07/04/1872 – 01/05/1933)
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Calvin Coolidge
"How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it." George Murphy
"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal."
"It's not music, it's a disease."
"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead." Esther Lederer
"It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister." Pauline Phillips
"I think it will always be popular. It's like the cycle of life. It grows, breaks up, falls down, and then starts all over again."
"Only the little people pay taxes." Leona Helmsley
"It looks different when you're sober. I thought I had twice as much furniture." Marvin Neil Simon
"Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies." Gina Lollobrigida
"Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants." Geraldo Rivera