Robert Fulghum Quotes
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Death, Dreams, Imagination, Love, Experience, History, Knowledge, Hope, Cure, Facts, Grief, Laughter, Myth)
"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?"
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Soul, Man, Profit, World)
"To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'"
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Existence)
"The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Change, Love, Needs, Tourists, Will, World)
"The examined life is no picnic."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Life)
"Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Will, Words)
"Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them."
- Robert Fulghum
"Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: People, Hurt, Play)
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Fire, Nothing)
"I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Life, Money, Thought, Living, Worth)
"All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten."
- Robert Fulghum
"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Children, Worry)
"Clean up your own mess."
- Robert Fulghum
"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Life, Work, Dance, Day, Play, Wonder)
"And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Old, World)
"If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Party, Want)