Fortune Cookies

"Remember: If you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm." - Audrey Hepburn

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone." - Audrey Hepburn

"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?" - Bud Abbott

"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past." - Clara Barton

"I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay." - Clara Barton

"The surest test of discipline is its absence." - Clara Barton

"I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?" - Clara Barton

"With liberty and justice for all." Francis Bellamy

"I do not know how to kiss or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?" - Ingrid Bergman

"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say." - Ingrid Bergman

"We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false." - Ingrid Bergman

"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying." - Ingrid Bergman

"Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people on the whole aren't much smarter." - Louise Brooks

"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead." - Louise Brooks

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." - Billie Burke

""To survive there you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony." - Billie Burke

"Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down. " - Kirk Douglas

"I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want." - Renee Fleming

"The great have no friends. They merely know a lot of people." - Ruth Gordon

"The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?" - Ruth Gordon

"The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions: most of them were quiet. wetting their lips. not looking around." - Shirley Jackson from The Lottery

"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling." - Al Lewis

"Everything is viable, but don't expect results." - Al Lewis

"I met Manson in front of the Whiskey-A-Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard. He sat for four or five hours. He amused the kids, he brought the guitar and he played. No big deal, no sweat. That's how I met Charlie Manson. He wanted to be in the music business. He babysat my three kids." - Al Lewis

"I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings. I think people should live in there." - Al Lewis

"My mother used to say, in broken English: This is a big world. When you go out there's millions of people ready to kick you in the a**. Don't bend down to accomodate them." - Al Lewis

"The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been." - Al Lewis

"Rochester, the flower or flour city, spell it as you choose, has degenerated, and is now universally known as the beer city. NY1879" - @TweetsofOld