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

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

My specialty is detached malevolence..

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

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

I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington..

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

[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..

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

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

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch..

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening..

If you can't say something nice about someone, come and sit right here next to me..

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America..

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches..

If YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE..COME SIT BY ME..

You can't make souffle rise twice..

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

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

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

You can't make a souffle rise twice..