If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of whic…

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the h…

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city poli…

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped a…

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull