Best 133 quotes of Marilyn Vos Savant on MyQuotes

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.