When All Else Fails Quotes

• If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Laughter, Mistake, Humorous

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1975.

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• Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.

  Angus Young

  People, Dancing, Trying

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• When all else fails there's always delusion.

  Conan O'Brien

  Failing, Absurd, Delusion

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• When all else fails, look cute.

  Jim Davis

  Funny, Cute, Humor

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• When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

  Marie Leszczynska

  Jesus, Religion, Woods

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• Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Song, Fun

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• Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Hands

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.52, CCEL

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• When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.

  Marcus Garvey

  People, Failing, Organize

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• Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.

  Francis of Assisi

  Compassion, Use, Failing

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• Prayer succeeds when all else fails

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Succeed

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.52, CCEL

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• When all else fails, read the instructions.

  Agnes Allen

  Failing, Instruction, Murphys Law

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• When all else fails, dream bigger.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Failing, Bigger

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• When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

  Sue Grafton

  Perfect, House, Cleaning

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.180, Macmillan

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• I can't sleep,I can't but when all else fails I just breath.

  Pamela Moore

  Sleep, Failing, Breaths

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• When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

  Sam Walton

  Song, Silly, Costumes

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.316, Bantam

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• I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

  E. O. Wilson

  Men, Failing, Reason

  "Bill Moyers talks with E.O. Wilson". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. July 6, 2007.

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• When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

  Herman Cain

  Names, Personality, Politics

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• When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

  Stephen King

  Giving Up, Library, Failing

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.

  Anne Lamott

  Failing, Instruction

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.75, Penguin

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• When all else fails, complicate matters

  Aaron Allston

  Matter, Failing

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• When all else fails, take a vacation.

  Betty Williams

  Vacation, Failing

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• Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

  Tom Bergeron

  Noses, Forget, Failing

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• You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

  T. H. White

  Thinking, Done, Failing

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• The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya it's wrong, but God loves, take one step toward him he'll take two toward you, even when all else fails, God'll support you

  Nas

  Support You, Two, Forgiving

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• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Failure, Character

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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