David Shields Quotes

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Lily's really together - she's a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I'm there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Send a wise man and don't advise him. He should know what to do.

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

Live to 97 and you can do anything.

I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.

I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

I'm the kind of person that if I'm not getting something that I need from somewhere. I don't cry about it, I'm like OK I'm going to go here and find what I need.

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

I can deal with everything. I got the answer for anything.