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We tried not to age, but time had its rage. -- Patti Smith
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -- Mae West
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. -- John Lennon
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. -- Winston Churchill
If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity. -- Tyra Banks
I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit. -- Anthony Davis
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. -- George Washington
Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard. -- Sherrod Brown
I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years. -- John Sergeant Wise
I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me. -- Neymar
I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery. -- Anthony Hopkins
I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine. -- Angelina Jolie
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God. -- Andy Griffith
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. -- Sophia Loren
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. -- Pope John XXIII
At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different. -- Dave Franco
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life. -- Ezra Taft Benson
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. -- Kate Bernheimer
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. -- Amy Chua
I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women. -- Mickey Rooney
The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique. -- Ellen DeGeneres
What isn't tried won't work. -- Claude Maxwell MacDonald
Trust one who has tried. -- Virgil
I tried to control the narrative. -- Lance Armstrong
I've tried body surfing. It's nice. -- Ziggy Marley
I've always tried to vote my conscience. -- Leonard Lance
I've never tried to manipulate my image. -- Alan Alda
I tried to think but nothing happened! -- Curly Howard
I tried. But not everybody thought so. -- Andrew Young
I tried to follow Ben Graham's ideas. -- Walter Schloss
I have always tried to stay current. -- Rick Baker
Have you ever tried to split sawdust? -- Eugene McCarthy
I tried hockey, but it never stuck. -- Jason Bay
I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty. -- Sharon Creech
Have you ever tried sugar or PCP? -- Mitch Hedberg
I always tried to do cool things. -- Scott Aukerman
He tried the luxury of doing good. -- George Crabbe
I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is. -- Gene Pitney
I've never tried pot; I've never tried anything. -- Janet Jackson
When all else failed, she tried being reasonable. -- Terry Pratchett
I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried. -- Hilary Mantel
I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956 -- Bruce Dern
You shouldn't say I can't until you've tried. -- Patrick Henry Hughes
Sweets, you couldn't ignore me if you tried. -- Judd Nelson
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped! -- Gary Paulsen
I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. -- Clint Eastwood
You quitting and you ain't even tried yet! -- Eric Thomas
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. -- William J. Clinton
One time I tried to marry a chicken. -- Calum Hood
I never tried to kill myself or anything. -- Ronnie Spector
All I know is I've tried my best. -- Tiger Woods
I tried to give up drugs by drinking. -- Lou Reed
I always tried to manage my money smart. -- Rakim
I have tried so hard to do right. -- Grover Cleveland
I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing. -- Judy Dater
When I was 14, I tried to stab someone. -- Benjamin Carson
I just tried to build on my failures. -- Kevin Costner
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Faith is not faith which is not tried. -- Katharina Zell
If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.... -- Shirley Hufstedler
I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying. -- Dolly Parton
Think of the man who first tried German sausage. -- Jerome K. Jerome
I've always tried to seek out environments with excitement. -- Kenneth Chenault
I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me. -- Lil Wayne
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace. -- Ad Reinhardt
I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records. -- Boy George
Her secret fear? Maybe she didn't tried hard enough. -- Rick Riordan
I once tried playing baseball but I started crying. -- Thom Yorke
Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't. -- Ted Rall
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried. -- William Shakespeare
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct. -- Lee Kuan Yew
I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein
We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us. -- Tony Thomson
If you haven't failed yet, you haven't tried anything. -- Reshma Saujani
Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge? -- Brent Weeks
I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
I've probably tried every fad diet in the world. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
The only bad ideas are the ones never tried. -- Michael Buckley
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I tried to learn the violin for a while. -- Peter Wright
I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image. -- Domenico Gnoli
I have tried in my way to be free. -- Leonard Cohen
Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it. -- Edward Abbey
I have tried so hard to do the right. -- Grover Cleveland
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity. -- Seneca the Younger
I want to be remembered as one who tried. -- Dorothy Height
I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it. -- Anton Yelchin
I'm not, sexy, am I? God knows, I've tried -- Cilla Black
War is sweet to those who never tried it. -- Pindar
They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note) -- Vachel Lindsay
The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked. -- David Gower
Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose. -- Peter Kay
The nature of faith is that it must be tried. -- Oswald Chambers
Nobody's tried to touch my hair in like, in decades. -- Susan Rice
I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing. -- Ted Turner
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. -- John D. Rockefeller
I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth. -- Mason Cooley
I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free. -- John Ashbery
Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into. -- Kris Allen
I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die. -- Rick Riordan
I just kind of tried to stay true to myself. -- Rene Marie
I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life. -- Ted Lange
I tried a robin heart once. It wasn't very good. -- Emilia Clarke
When all that you've tried, leaves nothing but holes inside. -- Joe Brooks
Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine. -- Brooke Burke
I tried to put myself up for adoption several times. -- Chelsea Handler
I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else. -- Sachin Tendulkar
Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you. -- Poppy Z. Brite
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won. -- John Prine
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station. -- Orlando Bloom
He tried to imagine the sound of the color red. -- Pete Hamill
I always tried to do the best for my kid. -- Sofia Vergara

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