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Quotes by Columnist
"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."
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"If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date."
80
"Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become."
79
"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
73
"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
71
"German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship."
69
"We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate."
68
"Eating without conversation is only stoking."
68
"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."
65
"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back."
65
"The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her."
64
"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."
64
"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."
62
"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."
62
"Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy."
61
"Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility."
60
"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."
59
"What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's."
58
"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."
58
"Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it."
58
"You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook."
57
"It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come."
57
"Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits."
56
"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
54
"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."
54
"Stunning vistas don't always produce eloquence."
54
"Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too."
51
"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do."
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