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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
— Booth Tarkington
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
— Booth Tarkington
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
— Carrie Underwood
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
— Booth Tarkington
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
— Booth Tarkington
don't control things, things will sure as hell control you. Before
— Charles Alverson
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
— Booth Tarkington
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
— Booth Tarkington
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
— Booth Tarkington
Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.
— Booth Tarkington
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
— Booth Tarkington
Not quite so long ago as a generation, there was no panting giant here, no heaving, grimy city . . . there was time to live.
— Booth Tarkington
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
— Booth Tarkington
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
— Booth Tarkington
It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.
— Booth Tarkington
I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
— Booth Tarkington
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
— Booth Tarkington
I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow.
— Marquita Burke-DeJesus
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
— Booth Tarkington
Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.
— Booth Tarkington
There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!
— Booth Tarkington