Elizabeth Taylor Famous Quotes



"It's not the having, its the getting."

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Success is a great deodorant.

"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."


Elizabeth Taylor Quotations






More Famous Quotes


If you don't go fishing because you thought it might rain you will never go fishing. This applies to more than fishing.
Gary Sow

The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert

"I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

"Dr. Joel Fleischman in nature. Not exactly the man you knew. He couldn't see past the Hudson River if he tried. He liked his fish smoked or preferable hand sliced from Zabars on a sliced bagel served with onions. Nature, to him, was an irritant. Birds didn't sing, they woke him up. A body of water wasn't life, it was a golf hazard.."
Robin Green

"Many receive advice, few profit by it."
Publilius Syrus

"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us."
David Sarnoff

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams

"Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise."
Thomas Fuller

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Thomas Carlyle