Quote #35

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

More from Dorothy Parker

  1. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
  2. The poor son-of-a-bitch!
  3. I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa.
  4. This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
  5. I wish I could drink like a lady, I'll have one or two at the most. Three and I'm under the table, Four and I'm under the host.
  6. Time doth flit; oh shit.
  7. I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilli…
  8. What fresh hell is this?

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