Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
Marilyn vos Savant
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Mother
Sharp
Anything
Wit
Mean
Keeping
Useful
Example
Least
Law
Doesn
Unemployed
More quotes by Marilyn vos Savant
Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.
Marilyn vos Savant
Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
Marilyn vos Savant
Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
Marilyn vos Savant
Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
Marilyn vos Savant
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant
You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
Marilyn vos Savant
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
Marilyn vos Savant
I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
Marilyn vos Savant
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
Marilyn vos Savant
...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.
Marilyn vos Savant
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.
Marilyn vos Savant
Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
Marilyn vos Savant
Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
Marilyn vos Savant
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
Marilyn vos Savant
I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
Marilyn vos Savant
If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them
Marilyn vos Savant
Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
Marilyn vos Savant
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
Marilyn vos Savant