Eddie Cantor Famous Quotes
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
Eddie Cantor Quotations
Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
"My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit."
Igor Stravinsky
"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)"
Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf
I felt like poisoning a monk.
Umberto Eco
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
"What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it."
Rudyard Kipling
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis
There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you.
Maredith Close
"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
Margaret Fuller
"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."
Zig Ziglar