Ethel Barrymore Famous Quotes
"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore Quotations
"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us."
John F Kennedy
"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
Ruth Gordon
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Richard Milhous Nixon
Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Man was predestined to have free will.
Hal Lee Luyah
"In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint."
Lyndon B Johnson
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
Akhenaton
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
William Shakespeare
"Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses."
Charles Kingsley
"Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld