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"Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example." Duc Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  • William Howard Taft: "I have been talking for a quarter of an hour, but there is so much noise that I can hardly hear myself talk."
  • Crowd member: "That's all right, you're not missing anything."
    (09/15/1857 – 03/08/1930)
    US President (27) (see all US Presidents)
 William Howard Taft
  • Friend: "That drink is slow poison."
  • Robert Benchley: "So who's in a hurry?"
    (09/15/1889 – 11/21/1945)
    US writer
 Robert Benchley
"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness—to save oneself trouble." Agatha Christie
"Goodbye, Mr. Zanuck; it certainly has been a pleasure working at Sixteenth Century Fox." Jean Renoir
"Don't be a blueprint. Be an original." Roy Acuff
"That youthful sparkle in his eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished."
"I would stand on the floor, and they would bring this arm down and cinch it around my waist, then pull me up in the air. Every time I moved, one of the fingers would loosen, so it would look like I was trying to get away. Actually, I was trying not to slip through his hand." Vina Fay Wray
"I'm proud and grateful I was Blondie, She was dumb and shrewish sometimes, but she was real and sympathetic and warm, a real woman, a human being. And that's how I tried to play her." Penny Singleton
"You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree." John Mitchell
"You've got to take Chances in life." Nelson Minter
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