From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. – Helen Hayes
Theres a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. Ill not be parting with that, nor our bed – the four-poster – Ill be needing that to die in. – Helen Hayes
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single days work an achievement for eternity. – Helen Hayes
It sometimes happens at the end of a dinner, when jokes and walnuts are cracked together, that the paternity of some trite quotation is put in question, and at once the wit of the whole company is set wool-gathering. – Frederic Swartwout Cozzens, “Phrases and Filberts,” Sayings, Wise and Otherwise