Mary Pettibone Poole Quotes

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Many people who imagine they are live wires are only shocking.

Mary Pettibone Poole
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

Mary Pettibone Poole
When we are prosperous, our friends know us; when we are poor, we know our friends.

Mary Pettibone Poole
A woman's definition of a bore: a man in love with another woman.

Mary Pettibone Poole
Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

Mary Pettibone Poole
To repeat what others have said requires education, to challenge it requires brains.

Mary Pettibone Poole
Money will not bring happiness... but it enables us to be unhappy very comfortably.

Mary Pettibone Poole
It's not what a man stands for that counts: it's what he falls for!

Mary Pettibone Poole
Absence makes the heart grow fonder; presents make it grow even fonder.

Mary Pettibone Poole
It's all right to drink like a fish — if you drink what a fish drinks.

Mary Pettibone Poole
Some people confuse having a lot of money with being worth a lot of money.

Mary Pettibone Poole
People who think money can do anything may very well be suspected of doing anything for money.

Mary Pettibone Poole
The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

Mary Pettibone Poole
Success is getting what you go after; happiness is liking it after you get it.

Mary Pettibone Poole
A pessimist is a person who has not had enough experience to be a cynic.

Mary Pettibone Poole
Tact is the ability to describe people as they see themselves.

Mary Pettibone Poole
Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains.

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There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead.

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