Betty Macdonald Quotes

#1. The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

Paul Ryan

#2. I think the minimum wage outght to keep pace with inflation. I think the minimum wage is a good thing to have in our country and I think it ought to be updated.

Mitt Romney

#3. It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.

Dinah Shore

#4. Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

Betty MacDonald

#5. The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

Betty MacDonald

#6. THIS IS DICK -- DON'T TOUCH!!!

Betty MacDonald

#7. Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

Betty MacDonald

#8. I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

Betty MacDonald

#9. _Sunday!_ In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all of the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest

Betty MacDonald

#10. There's nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

Betty MacDonald

#11. The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs ... When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#12. Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking." And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.

Betty MacDonald

#13. Another female household-hinter gave me a recipe for a big hearty main dish of elbow macaroni, mint jelly, lima beans, mayonnaise and cheese baked until 'hot and yummy.' Unless my taste buds are paralyzed, this dish could be baked until hell freezes over and it might get hot but never 'yummy.

Betty MacDonald

#14. Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

Betty MacDonald

#15. Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

Betty MacDonald

#16. I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

Jessie J.

#17. A grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

Betty MacDonald

#18. This lucid explanation of the phenomena we had witnessed appeared to me quite satisfactory. However great and mighty the marvels of nature may seem to us, they are always to be explained by physical reasons. Everything is subordinate to some great law of nature.

Jules Verne