Mary Mcgrory Quotes

#1. [On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.

Mary McGrory

#2. And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

Mary McGrory

#3. I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

Mary McGrory

#4. Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#5. Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

Mary McGrory

#6. The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.

Humphrey Bogart

#7. [On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

Mary McGrory

#8. My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

Mary McGrory

#9. Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

Mary McGrory

#10. Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake ...

Mary McGrory

#11. Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success.
The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them.

Joseph Zobel

#12. I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

Black Elk

#13. There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

Frederick Lenz

#14. An elderly man called Keith Mislaid his set of false teeth - They'd been laid on a chair, He'd forgot they were there, Sat down, and was bitten beneath. Irish limerick

Janice Thompson

#15. Life is sexist. If you were to get pregnant, you're the one whose life changes. Nothing of significance changes for the boy. You're the one people whisper about. I've seen that show, Teen Moms. All those boys are worthless. Garbage!

Jenny Han

#16. [On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.

Mary McGrory

#17. If there is a secret to writing, I haven't found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.

Mary McGrory

#18. I love you, Mia. Every part of you. The best and worst. The broken and perfect. The bad, the good. You're it for me, babe. I see only you.

Samantha Towle

#19. You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

Mary McGrory

#20. Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

Mary McGrory

#21. A liar doesn't want to think that other people are liars, because then the other people should suspect her of lying too, because she is, and she'll get caught.

Chris Pavone

#22. [On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

Mary McGrory

#23. Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby.

Mary McGrory

#24. Because, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, I was embraced by the gays. They loved me and praised me. I was funny and so mean and mature for my age!

Tina Fey

#25. Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

Faina Ranevskaya

#26. We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

Mary McGrory

#27. Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

Mary McGrory

#28. Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

Mary McGrory