198 Quotes by Marilyn Vos Savant

My thoughts are like waffles – the first few don’t look so good.

Know how to drive safely when it’s raining or when it’s snowing. The two conditions are different.

While you’re writing, you can’t concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

I believe a ‘talented’ person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn’t embarrassed that he or she asked.

Everybody loves an accent. It you’ve been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you’ll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don’t have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you’re sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.

Be able to live alone, even if you don’t want to and think you will never find it necessary.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.