The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

About Nancy Astor

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Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. Astor was born in Danville, Virginia, and raised in Greenwood, Virginia. Her first marriage, to...

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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything—or nothing.

life danger change

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

success boredom

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Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.

—Henry David Thoreau

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

—Fran Lebowitz

History

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