When she finally was able to order a martini, the first sip nearly knocked her head off. It was so strong. And how surprised she was that scotch tasted more like iodine than butterscotch candy. Two of the great disappointments in her life.
Men are necessary up to a point, but women are the natural leaders in society and in the home.
Now, I’m not saying they can help it, all I am saying is that in order for this world to keep on progressing the women have got to run things. The trick is to do it without them knowing it.
History was being rewritten by the minute. All of his childhood heroes were now being viewed as villains, their lives judged in hindsight by the current fad of political correctness.
I just think humiliation really causes more harm than maybe being physically beaten.
If you did tell the truth or if you didn’t, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best.
Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.
Evelyn leaned out her window and calmly said, “Let’s face it, honey, I’m older than you are and have more insurance than you do,” and drove away.
His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.
Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.
I don’t know. I just feel all wicky-wacky. I’m just thrown for a loop and back. I can’t even think about what to do.
It’s kind of funny, really, all these years, everybody has been so busy trying to figure what life was all about, and all the while, it was just something for us to enjoy.
You think people are some kind of pure, white feathered birds flying in the clouds. They’re not. They’re pigs and they love to wallow in the mud and dirt.
There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans. And I don’t ever want you to forget that. You hear me?
Well, they are trying to get rid of Christianity and once they do that, then you watch. Our taxes will go up and they’ll take all our guns away and the next thing you know, a communist or a socialist will get in the White House and then it will be all over.
Oswald welcomed the cooler weather because in the following days he discovered it brought winter sunsets, and the river sunsets were different from anything else he had ever seen. They mesmerized him.
Every woman wants to get married and have children.
In the movies, it was always the bad guys that got killed, and the good guys lived happily forever.
Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong.
She had no interest in love. Love had taken her in the back room and beaten her up pretty badly.