Frank Abagnale Quotes Page 3

“I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.”

“I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies.”

“I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot.”

“I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks.”

“My one sensuous fault was women. I had a Cyprian lust for them.”

“Of course, as someone once observed, there is no right way to do something wrong.”

“The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.”

“Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.”

“When you're up there hundreds of people will claim you as a friend. When you're down, you're lucky if one will buy you a cup of coffee.”

“Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.”