Quotes

“How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.” Lucille Ball

“Luck? 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.” Lucille Ball

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

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” Lucille Ball

“I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.” Lucille Ball

“You see much more of your children once they leave home.” Lucille Ball

“Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.” Lucille Ball

“I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.” Lucille Ball

“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.” Lucille Ball

“I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.” Lucille Ball

“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.” Lucille Ball

“I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.” Lucille Ball

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke

“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.” Edmund Burke

“You can never plan the future by the past.” Edmund Burke

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” Edmund Burke

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” Edmund Burke

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Edmund Burke

“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.” Edmund Burke

“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” Edmund Burke

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” Edmund Burke

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edmund Burke

“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.” Edmund Burke

“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.” Edmund Burke

“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.” Edmund Burke

“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.” Edmund Burke

“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.” Edmund Burke

“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.” Edmund Burke

“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.” Edmund Burke

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” Edmund Burke