"Our greatest evils flow from ourselves." Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"There once was a girl of Lahore,
The same shape behind as before;
As no one knew where
To offer a chair,
She had to sit down on the floor."
"The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come."
  • Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree: "A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
  • Heckler: "Would a jackass do?"
  • Tree: "Certainly. Come down and present yourself."
    (12/17/1853 – 07/02/1917)
    English actor, writer, acting in "Richard III"
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
"Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense."
  • Amelia Earhart
    (07/24/1898 – 07/02/1937)
    US pilot (went missing 07/02/1937; declared deceased 01/05/1939)
Amelia Earhart
"He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled."
"One cat just leads to another." Ernest Hemingway
"There is nothing like an odor to stir memories."
"It's loud, it's cheap, it's gaudy. It's like everything I've ever done—I LOVE IT!" Elizabeth Ruth Grable
"Genius is an African who dreams up snow." Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
"Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike." Lee Ann Remick
"I am not a Hemingway aficionado." Margaux Hemingway
"Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing a Jimmy Stewart imitation myself." James Maitland Stewart
"He was. . . a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse." Mario Puzo, a fat guy with a big cigar
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." Beverly Sills