WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:29:49 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Longworth, Alice Roosevelt – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Longworth, Alice Roosevelt -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/longworth-alice-roosevelt/36633/ https://wist.info/longworth-alice-roosevelt/36633/#respond Wed, 29 Mar 2017 22:04:30 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36633 I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches.


Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980) American writer and socialite
(Attributed)

Quoted in Peter Passell & Leonard Ross, The Best (1974). When asked her opinion of the sexual revolution. Also attributed to Wallis Simpson. ]]> https://wist.info/longworth-alice-roosevelt/36633/feed/ 0 36633 Longworth, Alice Roosevelt -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/longworth-alice-roosevelt/68519/ https://wist.info/longworth-alice-roosevelt/68519/#respond Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:59:39 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=68519 Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom.


Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980) American writer and socialite
(Attributed)

On the birth of her daughter. Though widely attributed to Longworth, she in turn (as she did with many of her attributed witticisms) attributed it to someone else.

Quoted in Michael Teague, ed., Mrs. L.: Conversations With Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Introduction (1981). ]]> https://wist.info/longworth-alice-roosevelt/68519/feed/ 0 68519