Lucille Ball Famous Quotes
"I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
Lucille Ball Quotations
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.
James
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Kin Hubbard
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep."
Ursula K LeGuin
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
Lin Yutang
"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
Judith Martin
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.
Albert Camus
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones."
William Shakespeare
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
La Rochefoucauld
"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian."
Lee Simonson
"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete."
Hellen Keller