1950s housewife quotes

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. ~Jeff Candido and Jason Hoff, advertising slogan written for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, 2002



All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916



What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. ~Author Unknown What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 1



Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice. ~Author unknown, from New Yorker, "Talk of the Town"



I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. ~Sydney Smith



Leadership is action, not position. ~Donald H. McGannon



I don't discriminate - I'm an equal-opportunity hugger. ~Author Unknown



Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1834



Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. ~Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1890



I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. ~Author Unknown



Football is the opera of the people. ~Stafford Heginbotham, 1985



Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ~Ed Howe



Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. ~Thomas Browne



Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. ~Jim Davis, "Garfield" (Please note: In its original context, this is NOT about vegetarianism)



Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever. ~David Letterman



If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~Woodrow Wilson



All she keeps inside isn't on the label. ~Fuel



The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ~Jessamyn West



Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus