Taylor Caldwell Quotes

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.

You know, I don't want to stand out too much.

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

I try to be as normal as I can.

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

Don't ask too many questions from the bench, and that way you will avoid asking too many foolish questions.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

We're all taught to blend in and behave.

L.A. is uninhibited: You're encouraged to express yourself, wear what you want, do what you want, and to speak from a very emotionally honest place. D.C. is different. In Washington, you have to be much more careful about what you say and do. Especially about what you wear!

It's perfect to be the same as everyone else.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.