"In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire."
"Well, I've got you the presidency, what are you going to do with it?" Florence Kling Harding
"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away." Ellen Glasgow
Robert Benchley
"The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
"Toward the end of her life she looked like a hungry insect magnified a million times." Denis Pratt