Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.(as Maudie Triplett), Response to Goodness! What a lovely diamond! in the film Night After Night (1932). She later used

Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit.

Kellie Elmore

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

George Ade

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

Nancy Astor, In Hammer and Tongu

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Thomas Merton

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Margaret Mitchell

The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Sydney Smith

[Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.

Wayne Cordeiro

I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS.

Terry Pratchett

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love

Friedrich Nietzsche