Osburgh Quotes

#1. The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had "placed" one by one in enviable niches of existence!

Edith Wharton

#2. Jack Stepney had once said of Miss Van Osburgh that she was as reliable as roast mutton. His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.

Edith Wharton

#3. Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.

Sarah Warden

#4. Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

#5. One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable.

Richard Bach

#6. It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

Tom Watson

#7. When you begin a new endeavor you need to reassess your life.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

Chelsea Handler