I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
- Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.