Radio From Hell (July 8, 2005)
“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
“Lay hold on Christ with both your poor, empty hands.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 589.
“Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.”
Source: "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" in Hard Lines (1931); this statement is often misattributed to Dorothy Parker.
“Your imagination is notoriously poor. Not everyone holds identical ambitions to your own!”
Book 2, Chapter 4 (p. 560)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
As quoted in Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior (1991) by Dan Millman, p. 78
Life’s not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
As quoted in "They Came to Write in Hawai‘i" by Joseph Theroux, in Spirit of Aloha (March/April 2007)
“(Television) Women hold up half the sky. (Sylvia) Uh huh, but in a poor neighborhood.”
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 206
