Gilbert: I'm about as popular as a dose of strychnine.
Iris Henderson: Was she hit? Gilbert: I can't tell!
William Miller: What about your mom? Penny Lane: She always said, "Marry up. Marry someone grand". And that's why she named me "Lady". William Miller: She named you "Lady?" Penny Lane: [makes a face] Lady Goodman.
Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and bo...
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
I think old people should just be old and go away.
I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
The doctor in Murare is old - old for anybody. He is especially old for a doctor and especially old for an African. But he doesn´t have the luxury of retirement to look forward to. There aren´t enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become d...
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing to do with the number of years since your birth. He feared the premature old age of missed opportunities.
There are no old friendships in business.
What a curious power words have.
The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
Gilbert: Never climb a fence if you can sit on it.
Geum-ja Lee: Be White. Live White. Like this.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
