68 Quotes by Ruth Gordon

I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?....

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.