68 Quotes by Ruth Gordon

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Sometimes what you want you don’t get until you don’t want it anymore.

Try something new each day. After all, we’re given life to find it out. It doesn’t last forever.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They’re just backing away from life.

I feel that much of the world’s sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Vice, virtue – it’s best not to be too moral. You’ll cheat yourself out of too much life.

In our family we don’t divorce our men – we bury them.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don’t believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It’s the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

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