Frances Ellen Watkins Quotes

#1. The landlord was trying to explain that there were a great many English people in his house, all fighting duels or having hysterics.

Georgette Heyer

#2. I'll serve something black. Bean soup, licorice, coffee. It'll be very grim, I promise. We'll cover the mirrors. We'll listen to Piaf. We'll read passages from Dostoyevsky.

Stephanie Kallos

#3. Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.

Sam Levenson

#4. My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.

Joseph J. Lhota

#5. Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Tacitus

#6. Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

#7. Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

Wallis Simpson

#8. We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

Ed Koch