Art Linkletter Quotes

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• Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
• Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim…
• A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a…
• My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people…
• The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to…
• Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
• Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.
• Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like…
• A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he…
• I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
• Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
• Kids do say the darndest things
• Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told…
• I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights
• The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you…
• Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well
• I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And…
• No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.
• If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.
• Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

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