Bette Davis Quotes

Old Age Ain't For Sissies. Taken from a Bette Davis quote.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

I think Mr. Reagan has done very well under very difficult circumstances. He's had terrific problems physically and he's managed them very well. But my God, the witch hunt today! Is there any human being alive who hasn't done something bad in their youth - like maybe smoke marijuana once? And this man (Judge Ginsburg) found it necessary to admit it! My God! It would be like Mr. Jack Kennedy sitting down and listing all the women (he knew) before he got in.

I am just too much.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Getting old is not for sissies.

I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. Discipline is guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.