Lou Thesz Quotes

#1. Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

Edgar Bergen

#2. Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.

Lou Thesz

#3. Don't let a bad review get you down. You can't always please everyone.

B.A. Gabrielle

#4. India and China have not shied away from addressing boundary questions, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution ... We have been able to put all issues on the table.

Li Keqiang

#5. Gos had steely pinions and a mad marigold eye, and hopped and flew and mantled his great wings over a fist of raw liver. He cheeped like a songbird and was terrified of cars. I liked Gos. Gos was comprehensible, even if the writer was utterly beyond understanding.

Helen Macdonald

#6. I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.

Attia Hosain

#7. I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.

Lou Thesz

#8. A good thing in one's ignorance is that one doesn't know that s/he
doesn't know.

Eraldo Banovac

#9. Even Robot Girls get nervous sometimes.
-Beatrice Szabo

Natalie Standiford

#10. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made....

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things.

Doug Flutie

#12. When the door opened, the three goons from the hall found me braced in a defensive stance, holding a full-sized horseman's glaive in front of me. As expected, all three of them stopped and stared. Eight-foot long polearms had that effect on people.

Seanan McGuire

#13. Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else

Kanye West

#15. How grateful am I personally that our Savior taught we should conclude our most urgent, deeply felt prayers, when we ask for that which is of utmost importance to us, with Thy will be done.

Richard G. Scott

#16. I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Lou Thesz

#17. I wanted to shake the stuffing out of him; I wanted to hug him; I wanted to die.

Alan Bradley

#18. Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don't care.

Ariel Sharon

#19. The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.

Lou Thesz