Robert McCloskey Famous Quotes



"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."


Robert McCloskey Quotations






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When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
Dwight D Eisenhower

"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it."
Erma Bombeck

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
Mary Wilson Little

"I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored."
Betty White

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent."
Arnold Schwarzenegger

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain."
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Hellen Keller

The secret of greatness is simple do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Wilfred A Peterson