M.M. Kaye Quotes

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it.

The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.

Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.

Some woman are more interested in what they look like than what they are. If they more interested in what they are, they would look better.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.

I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

When you hear somebody with balls, that's me.

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

Remember to practice a little every day -- that's crucial.

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

Housewives spend more money than their husbands make, so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do.

I am a wife-made man.

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other.

When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

It’s fun to be in a place where ridiculous is normal.

Two heads are better than one only if they contain different opinions.

Every note has to come out clean.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward