We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. Marie Dressler More Quotes by Marie Dressler More Quotes From Marie Dressler Only a few things are really important. Marie Dressler happiness life funny Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it. Marie Dressler ugly-duckling fate play It is not how old you are, but how you are old. Marie Dressler wisdom age birthday The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing. Marie Dressler regret love-is past If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics? Marie Dressler picnics ants time By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. Marie Dressler turning-50 maturity birthday Character is what you have when nobody is looking. Marie Dressler character If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly. Marie Dressler ifs love men I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features. Marie Dressler indifferent matter beautiful By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons Marie Dressler hardest lessons fifty There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune. Marie Dressler envy differences success Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole. Marie Dressler perfect numbers inspirational In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves Marie Dressler stage elbows order That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final. Marie Dressler unfortunate-things unfortunate finals I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly. Marie Dressler doctors men country I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette. Marie Dressler homely prima-donnas ugly You're only as good as your last picture. Marie Dressler haircuts lasts I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them. Marie Dressler marriage couple perfect I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear. Marie Dressler horse block dog ... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself. Marie Dressler harder wells enough
