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You can't make a souffle rise twice.

I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

[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.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.

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

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist ... Well, a show-off anyway.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.

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.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

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