By all accounts, Alice Roosevelt was not an easy daughter to raise or person to know, but she has a sharp mind and a sharper tongue and left a legacy of some delightfully snarky quotes that make a person both smile and cringe a little.
If you can’t any something good about someone, sit right here by me.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
I’ve always believed the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
He [Calvin Coolidge] looks at though he’s been weaned on a pickle.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
You can’t make a souffle rise twice.
Source: The Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt – http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/