To Toot One’s Own Horn Is Unattractive.
They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn’t been for him we’d all still be sitting here in the dark, with no...
They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh.
There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt,Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Now, I’m not saying they can help it, all I am saying is that in order for this world to keep on progressing the women have got to run things. The trick is to do it without them knowing it.
Mrs. Threadgoode laughed at the thought. Oh honey, I’ve buried my share, and each one hurt as bad as the last one. And there have been times when I’ve wondered why the good Lord handed me so many sorr...
Marry a nearsighted man and you’ll never look old.
I’m telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it’s worth getting older w...
It’s funny, when you’re a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you’re on the fast train to Memphis.
It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.
If you did tell the truth or if you didn’t, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best.
Ida had always been different. At school, when all the kids used to play church, and one would be the preacher, another the preacher’s wife, a deacon, and the choir leader, and some would be the paris...
I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. I...
I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise
He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.
And now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place!
You think people are some kind of pure, white feathered birds flying in the clouds. They’re not. They’re pigs and they love to wallow in the mud and dirt.
Those Russkies won’t put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well as the next man but nobody has the right to live here and do nothing bu...
There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.