Billy Rose Famous Quotes



Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.


Billy Rose Quotations






More Famous Quotes


"Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Earl Weaver

"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
Benjamin Franklin

"I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)"
Jim Lehrer

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field

"The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost."
John Foster Dulles

"Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
Fran Lebowitz

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley

"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."
Albert Einstein

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
Homer