Helen Hayes Quotes

American - Actress October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993

If you rest, you rust.

Helen Hayes

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Helen Hayes

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Helen Hayes

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Helen Hayes

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Helen Hayes

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes