Famous Quotes

Lucille Ball

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."     

"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."

"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."

"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."

"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."

"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."

"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."

"I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways."

"People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them."   

"Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."   

"Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt."

"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."

"A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright."

"Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

"Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?"

"I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one."

"I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally."

"Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily."

"Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us."

"Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world."

"Responsibility is the ability to respond."

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

"You see much more of your children once they leave home."