Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Just close your eyes—and think of England.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.

You ought to recognise your special talent, for your specific purpose.

When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked "The river or the state?"

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.