All Florence King Quotes
- Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. Able
- Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children… Americans
- A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt. Egg
- The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. Big
- Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. America
- Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic… America
- During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad… Bad
- I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them. Gun
- The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth ... Americans
- He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. Alone
- Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to… All
- True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. Composition
- In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment. Bar
- No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street Bed
- America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an… Absolute
- Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards… America
- In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to… Allows
- Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental. Inspirational
- Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip… All
- Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials Activist
- The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of… American
- Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. Breed
- We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous. Education
- I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon. Believe
- It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes. Cigarette