Quotations
- "From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash."
- "I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, honey, rich is better." (One of the earliest publications of this in book form, in 1955, attributes this quotation, without the "honey," to Joe E. Lewis. Earlier, the quotation appeared in the 1954 memoir "Men In Sandals" by Richard C. Madden. The quotation has also been ascribed to Gertrude Stein, Mae West, W.C. Fields, and others. Earliest non-book reference attributed Beatrice Kaufman, the wife of playwright George S Kaufman, in the form, "I've been poor and I've been rich. Rich is better!"
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“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)
“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)