Amy Vanderbilt Famous Quotes
"Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."
"Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him. (from the Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952)"
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
Amy Vanderbilt Quotations
Rumor is not always wrong. - from Life of Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
Francis Bacon
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
"To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters."
William Shakespeare
"We are always beginning to live, but are never living."
Manilius
"He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles."
Colombian Proverb
Slump I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
Yogi Berra
"One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day."
Peter Brodie
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
Thomas a Kempis
"Prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by kicking a pigskin ball through a big H. A most ripping victory. Cleo McDowell Son... I'm just going to tell you this one time. If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs."
Coming to America