American
Actress and
Comedian
(August 6,
1911 -
April 26,
1989)
"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."
"I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not."
"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."
"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
"Love yourself first and everything falls into line."
"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."
