Dorothy Parker Quotes

Work is the province of cattle.

Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.

Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

This level reach of blue is not my sea; Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,Whose quiet ripples meet obediently A marked and measured line, one after one. This is no sea of mine. that humbly laves Untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm. I have a need of wilder, crueler waves; They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. So let a love beat over me again, Loosing its million desperate breakers wide; Sudden and terrible to rise and wane; Roaring the heavens apart; a reckless tide That casts upon the heart, as it recedes, Splinters and spars and dripping, salty weeds.