Quotes by Lucille Ball

• You see much more of your children once they leave home.
• In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
• It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
• Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
• Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
• The more things you do, the more you can do.
• The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
• If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
• Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
• 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.
• Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
• I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
• I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
• I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
• Ability is of little account without opportunity.
• 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.
• I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
• I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
• I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
• I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
• How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
• 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.
• One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
• The strongest trees are rooted in the toughest winds.
• Love is not something you find, love is something that finds you when you are truly ready for it.
• The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
• Winning doesn't always mean being first. Sometimes, it means doing better than you've ever done before.
• Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
• A life lived in fear is a life half-lived
• Love yourself first and everything else falls into line
• Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
• Hardships often prepare successes.
• Love yourself first and everything else falls into place.
• I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done