Quote #22

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

More from Dorothy Parker

  1. [On her abortion] It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
  2. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
  3. You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
  4. That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.
  5. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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