This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now its all checks and no balances. – Gracie Allen
A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, “Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.” – Gracie Allen
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 shed just make enough for 16 and only serve half. – Gracie Allen
Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, Ill develop my radio personality. – Gracie Allen
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen