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Famous Lucille Ball Quotes

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

famous lucille ball quotes“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.” – Lucille Ball Quotes

Wednesday’s Quotes

This is just a random list of great quotes, but because today is Wednesday, let’s call them Wednesday’s Quotes :)

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

“To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person you are.” – Author Unknown

“Do what you can with what you’ve got wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke

“It is not length of Life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might just be the world.” – Author Unknown

“The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.” – Russian Proverb

“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” – Author Unknown

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” – Tim McGraw

“And sometimes when you turn, there is a shoulder to lean upon, a smile to believe in, a hand to hold. Those are the times your faith in the world is restored.” – Nirvikar Dahiya

“Laughter is the music of life.” – Sir William Osler

Life Quotes

In Europe, now it is morning. It’s 9 AM. I dare you to start this perfect day with some great life quotes.

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” – E. B. White

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“I love life because what more is there.” – Anthony Hopkins

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” – John Burroughs

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James

“Only a few things are really important.” – Marie Dressler

“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life-you just hang around until you get used to it.” – Charles M. Schulz

“May you live every day of your life.” – Jonathan Swift

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” – Marcus Aurelius

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” – H. L. Mencken

“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.” – William Lyon Phelps

“The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.” – Karen Horney

Harry Houdini Quotes

Let’s celebrate the birthday of the greatest magician in the world in our own way, with quotes. Today, let me share with you some great Harry Houdini Quotes.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

The great day of the Fire-eater – or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater – has passed.

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

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– “At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.”

– “Beauty is a form of genius – is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.”

– “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

– “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

– “Biography lends to death a new terror.”

– “By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”

– “By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”

– “Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.”

– “Charity creates a multitude of sins.”

– “Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”

– “Children have a natural antipathy to books – handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.”

– “Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

– “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

– “Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

– “Cynic: a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

– “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

– “Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.”

– “Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”

– “Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.”

– “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

– “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

– “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

– “Everyone should keep someone else’s diary.”

– “Everything popular is wrong.”

– “Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.”

– “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

– “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

– “Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

– “Hatred is blind, as well as love.”

– “He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.”

– “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

– “He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

– “He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.”

– “He was always late on principle; his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

– “Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary: when her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.”

– “How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

– “How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”

– “How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.”

– “I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

– “I am not young enough to know everything.”

– “I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.”

– “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

– “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

– “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

– “I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”

– “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

– “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”

– “I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.”

– “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

– “I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.”

– “I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

– “I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.”

– “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

– “I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

– “I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.”

– “I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

– “I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying – dead.”

– “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

– “If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”

– “If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.”

– “If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”

– “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

– “If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.”

– “If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

– “Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

– “In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”

– “In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever.”

Belive in Yourself Quotes

There is nothing more beautiful than believing in yourself. – Sam Kao

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. – Sally Field

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven. – William Shakespeare

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible. – Jennifer Capriati

Celebrate all the things you don’t like about yourself – love yourself. – Lady Gaga

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will. – Sugar Ray Robinson

Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do. – Martina Navratilova

If you don’t ask because you might be refused, you’ve already refused yourself. – Nisandeh Neta

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan

Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching. and live like it’s heaven on earth. – Mark Twain

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. – Adele Brookman

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. – Henry James

Fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination. – Cornelia Funke

You’re only a victim when you allow yourself to be one. – Primadonna Angela

The mind should dance with the body, and the whole universe is your stage. Try to feel that whatever you are doing is the most beautiful thing, the prettiest dance, because you are dancing with the whole Universe. – Yogi Bhajan

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. – Jean Sibelius

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right. – Henry Ford

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.  – Irisa Hail

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down. – Allen H. Neuharth

Knock the “t” off the “can’t.” – George Reeves

Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs. – Dan Zadra

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. – Truman Capote

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. – Henry David Thoreau

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. – John Powell

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be. – Karen Ravn

Never dull your shine for somebody else. – Tyra Banks

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. “Dr. Holmes,” quipped a friend, “I should think you’d feel rather small among us big fellows.” “I do,” retorted Holmes, “I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies.” – Author Unknown

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Alva Edison

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence. – Paula Cole

I am not a has-been. I am a will be. – Lauren Bacall

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown. – Author Unknown

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. – Buckminster Fuller

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. – Author Unknown