Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder (American Author of Children’s Novels)
That is the best—to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
—Gloria Vanderbilt (American Artist, Socialite)
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
—Yves Saint Laurent (French Designer)
Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (English Aristocrat, Poet)
God made death so we’d know when to stop.
—Steve Stiles (American Cartoonist)
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
—P. J. O’Rourke (American Journalist)
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.
—Noah Webster (American Lexicographer)
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
—Edward Hopper (American Painter)
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
—Walter Reuther (American Labor Leader)
Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we’re acting. Most people do it all day long.
—Marlon Brando (American Actor)
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
—Compton Mackenzie (English Writer)
Social problems can no longer be solved by class warfare any more than international problems can be solved by wars between nations. Warfare is negative and will sooner or later lead to destruction, while good will and cooperation are positive and supply the only safe basis for building a better future.
—Fridtjof Nansen (Norwegian Arctic Explorer)