Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Date of birth: 1818-04-12
Date of death: 1885-10-14
Quotes number: 82
Nationality: American
Profession: Comedian
I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
It's an important thing to remember where you came from.
He who keeps his cool best wins.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.