If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.