Tag: quotes

Quotable People: Installment Thirteen

  • “I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.” – William Hazlitt
  • “The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The road to a friend’s house is never long.” – Danish Proverb
  • “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
  • “We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” – W. Somerset Maugham
  • “Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself…if you don’t have friends you see much less than your otherwise might.” – Merle Shain
  • “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli
  • “Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.” – Henry David Thoreau

Quotable Women (and Men): Installment Five

  • “Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out, but I can usually shut her up with cookies.” – Anonymous
  • “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and eat just one of the pieces.” – Judith Viorst
  • “Behind every successful woman…is a substantial amount of coffee.” – Stephanie Piro
  • “If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” – Katharine Hepburn
  • “A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low cut her gown.” – Fredrich Nietzsche
  • “A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.” – Francoise Sagan
  • “It’s not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs…” – Anna Kournikova
  • “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yet without having asked any clear question.” – Alberta Camus

Quotable Women: Installment Three

  • “I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.” – Norman O. Brown
  • “Okay, so God made man first, but doesn’t everyone make a rough draft before they make a masterpiece?” – Courtney Huston
  • “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” – Erma Bombeck
  • “How happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not. ” – H.L. Mencken
  • “There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.” – Mae West
  • “To keep your character intact, you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.” – Katharine Hepburn
  • “I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.” – Margaret Thatcher

Quotable Women: Installment Two

To follow-up on last month’s post of memorable quotations taken from my page-a-day calendar (which thus far has an overrepresentation of thoughts from Marilyn Monroe and Coco Chanel), here are a few more gems:

  • “If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?” – Anonymous
  • “When women go wrong, men go right after them.” – Mae West
  • “People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do for a husband or a wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow room for growth.” – Erma Bombeck
  • “Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.” – Judith Stone

And though I don’t want to disrespect the sentiment of International Women’s Day, I found it too ironic that of all days, I came across this definition in this month’s Alberta Venture magazine today:

  • glass cliff – an important project or senior job given to a woman with a high risk of failure (cf. glass ceiling, e.g. Rona Ambrose)

Quotable Women

Annie bought me a lovely page-a-day calendar for Christmas, filled with empowering, witty and feminist quotes from women through the ages. A few of my favorite gems so far this year:

  • “You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.” – Erica Jong
  • “I think – therefore I’m single.” – Lizz Winstead
  • “‘Stay’ is a charming word in a girlfriend’s vocabulary.” – Louisa May Alcott
  • “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman
And one more – gleaned from the “Telescope” section of the Edmonton Journal‘s “Sunday Reader” that’s too good to forget:

  • “I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.” – Eleanor Roosevelt