More From Molly Ivins
- "It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America."
- "Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention."
- "As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office."
More In Wisdom
- "We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters."― Robert E. Lee
- "When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."― Victor Hugo
- "Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive."― William Dunbar