Texas Guinan Quotes

#1. A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan

#2. Success has killed more men than bullets.

Texas Guinan

#3. Seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

#4. I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world.

Texas Guinan

#5. Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.

Texas Guinan

#6. My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

Gabrielle Reece

#7. He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

Texas Guinan

#8. A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

Texas Guinan

#9. In that moment, he looked like mischief and midnight,
like a temptation that always slipped away too fast and left you at once relieved and disappointed.

Roshani Chokshi

#10. Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.

Texas Guinan

#11. I spent a good portion of my life being unable to honor my feelings. When I started the process of having real friendships it was a huge change. I still struggle with it because it is not familiar ground.

Bonnie St. John

#12. With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness. - Amy Upham (203)

Robert Whitaker