To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them..

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old..

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole..

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 ho….

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 wort….

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards..

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly..

I'll have my double chins in privacy..

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features..

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….

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, ….

You're only as good as your last picture..

I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette..

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?.

Only a few things are really important..

Character is what you have when nobody is looking..

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 yo….

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh..