Quotes by Frank Sinatra

“A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.”

“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy.”

“And then I go and spoil it all by saying somethin' stupid like, 'I love you.'”

“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night—be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.”

“Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are.”

“Fairy tales can come true. It can happen to you if you're young at heart.”

“For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”

“For nobody else gave me a thrill—with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.”

“For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught.”

“Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.”

“I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.”

“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”

“I have perhaps an overacute capacity for sadness and elation.”

“I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.”

“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family—and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”

“I'm for whatever gets you through the night.”

“I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life—in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God.”

“I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.”

“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.”

“I'm trying to figure out—Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.”

“If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it—it possesses you.”

“May you live to be 100, and may the last voice you hear be mine.”

“Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.”

“People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.”

“Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention.”

“Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”

“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”

“Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing—if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.”

“What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.”

“Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.”

“Ya gotta love livin', pally, 'cause dyin's a pain in the ass.”

“You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.”

“You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.”