Marie Dressler

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

No vice is so bad as advice.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.