Frank Crane Quotes

#1. You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Frank Crane

#2. We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Frank Crane

#3. One French guy at a bar wanted several of us to "faire le parachutisme." He said it was easy, you just jumped out of a plane. It sounded very exciting but no, thank you. He said "I'm not a homo." I said it's not a question of whether or not you're a homo, I just don't want to jump out of a plane.

Nicholson Baker

#4. Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Frank Crane

#5. Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Frank Crane

#6. Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

Frank Crane

#7. Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Mario Puzo

#8. The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can't explain it, I realise that's probably because I don't completely understand it myself.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#9. Nothing is impossible until you believe it to be.

Lisa Popp

#10. I avoid looking at the clock, fearing the slow passing of time that will only seem slower if I watch its progress.

Michelle Zink

#11. You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

Frank Crane

#12. You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank Hall Crane

#13. A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Frank Crane

#14. A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Frank Crane

#15. We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#16. Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

Frank Crane

#17. Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

William George Jordan

#18. Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Frank Crane

#19. You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.

Frank Crane

#20. A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.

Frank Crane