1. Ability is of little account without opportunity.
2. I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
3. I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
4. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
5. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
6. I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
7. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
8. In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
9. It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
10. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
11. 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.
12. Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
13. 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.
14. The more things you do, the more you can do.
15. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
16. Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
17. You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Quotes From I Love Lucy
[while watching Lucy and Ricky kiss]
Ethel Mertz:
Isn't that sweet? Just like two lovebirds.
Fred Mertz:
What are you, a bird watcher?
[repeated line]
Ricky Ricardo:
Lucy! I'm Home!
[inside an Italian train with a cramped seat Fred's asleep]
Ethel Mertz:
Fred, Fred, wake up sleeping beauty.
Lucy Ricardo:
You couldn't wake him up with a stick of dynamite.
Ethel Mertz:
Hey I got an idea
[yells]
Ethel Mertz:
Hey look there goes Gina Lollobrigida.
Fred Mertz:
[gets up from his seat excited] Where? Where? Where?
[Ricky and Lucy are doing a show together]
Ricky Ricardo:
I've got a joke you never heard in your life. I know a girl who's so
dumb she thinks a football coach has four wheels. Ha ha ha.
[Audience is silent]
Lucy Ricardo:
How many wheels does it have?
[Audience laughs]
[Ricky and Lucy are doing a show together]
Ricky Ricardo:
Hey, Lucy, did you hear about the fire at the shoe factory?
Lucy Ricardo:
I'll bet some heel started it.
Ricky Ricardo:
You're supposed to say, "What happened?"
Lucy Ricardo:
What's that?
Ricky Ricardo:
What happened?
Lucy Ricardo:
200 soles were lost.
Ricky Ricardo:
Who's that?
Fred Mertz:
Who's that? WHAT'S that?
Lucy Ricardo: Ricky, I'd like you to meet my second first husband.
Ricky Ricardo:
[with heavy accent] I won't switch apartments. Understand?
Lucy Ricardo:
Yes.
Ricky Ricardo:
What did I say?
Lucy Ricardo:
"I wun't swish aparments".
Ricky Ricardo:
I don't like that tone. You are thinking again.
Lucy Ricardo:
There's no law about me going to Romanov's. Perhaps maybe stopping by your table and...
Ricky Ricardo:
Lucy, if I so much as see your face at Romanov's, I'm gonna wrap you up
in brown paper and mail you back to New York. And that's an ultimatum.
Ethel Mertz:
An ultimatum? I'm not surprised.
Lucy Ricardo:
I am. I didn't think he knew how to pronounce it.
Ethel Mertz:
If I let my hair go like that you'd never let me hear the end of it.
Fred Mertz:
Honeybunch, if the rest of you looked like that I wouldn't care if you were bald.
Ethel Mertz:
There's lots of things you're good at.
Lucy Ricardo:
Like what?
Ethel Mertz:
Well, you're awfully good at... uh... You've always been great at...
Lucy Ricardo:
Those are the same ones Ricky came up with.
Ricky Ricardo:
How do spell s'perience?
Lucy Ricardo:
E-x-p
Ricky Ricardo:
E-x? You're kidding.
Peggy:
Ricky's middle aged. He must be pushing 23.
Lucy Ricardo:
Yeah he's pushing 23 alright. He's pushed it all the way to 35.
Peggy:
Do you still know how to dance?
Lucy Ricardo:
[insulted] I seem to recall a few variations on the Turkey Trot.
Peggy:
[Describing a boy she's got a crush on] He's got curly hair, sad puppy dog eyes and he looks like Gregory Peck.
Lucy Ricardo:
Sounds more like Lassie.
Arthur:
But... You're a woman.
Lucy Ricardo:
Yes, my husband likes me that way.
Ricky Ricardo:
Why are we whispering?
Lucy Ricardo:
If my feet find out this was my idea, they'll kill me.
Lucy Ricardo:
How much do you want to bet?
Fred Mertz:
Ten dollars.
Ethel Mertz:
Well what's the matter with twenty dollars?
Ricky Ricardo:
What's the matter with thirty dollars?
Lucy Ricardo:
What's the matter with fifty dollars?
Fred Mertz:
What was the matter with ten dollars?
Fred Mertz:
We'll sue you.
Ricky Ricardo:
Yeah? We'll see who's gonna sue who.
Lucy Ricardo:
Yeah, we'll sue who's gonna see...
Lucy Ricardo: Nurtz to Mertz
Ricky Ricardo:
Fred, I've got an awful problem on my hands.
Fred Mertz:
You should have thought about that before you married her.
Lucy Ricardo: I got a Mickey from Ricky.
Lucy Ricardo:
I'd just love a Richard Widmark grapefruit to go with my Robert Taylor orange.
Ethel Mertz:
What a fruit salad that would make.
Lucy Ricardo:
Will you at least wait for us?
Bus Driver:
Go ahead. TRY me.
Lucy Ricardo:
"Go ahead. TRY me".
Lucy Ricardo:
I wish there were a place to sit where we could see both sides.
Bus Driver:
There is.
Lucy Ricardo:
Where?
Bus Driver:
I can strap you to the front of the bus.
Lucy Ricardo:
Well.
