James Montgomery Bailey famous quotes

When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.
-- James Montgomery Bailey

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A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
-- James Montgomery Bailey

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The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.
-- James Montgomery Bailey

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Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

Love is when two people who care for each other get confused.

It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.

You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.