Memorable Quotes - Page 34

• My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.

  Joan Rivers

  Love Life, Missing, Life Is Like

  "Not Forgotten", www.nytimes.com. June 8, 2015.

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• I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

  Joan Rivers

  Alzheimer's, Comedian, Might

  Twitter post from Jul 02, 2014

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• I hate thin people; 'Oh, does the tampon make me look fat?'

  Joan Rivers

  Hate, People, Doe

  "Joan Rivers’ Birthday: Her Funniest Fashion Disses (PHOTOS)" by Lauren Leibowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2013.

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• I now consider it a good day when I don't step on my boobs.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Humorous, Good Day

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• Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker?

  Joan Rivers

  Husband, Cake, Laughing

  "Finding The Summer Movies That Are (Well) Off The Beaten Path". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. May 31, 2010.

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• The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Beautiful, Weakness

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.25

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• Her only flair is in her nostrils.

  Pauline Kael

  Sarcastic, Flair

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

  Margot Asquith

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Lying

  In Listener 11 June 1953 "Margot Oxford: a Personal Impression" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter

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• Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Sarcastic, Hanging On, Pushing

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• A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Ideas, Intuition

  Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, May 3, 1949.

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• Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

  Alice Meynell

  Strong, Travel, Memories

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.226, eBookIt.com

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• Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Travel, Opportunity, Cities

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• Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

  William Shakespeare

  Simplicity, Environmental, Environment

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• I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

  Sophie Tucker

  Funny, Happiness, Success

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• Pray you now, forget and forgive.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.305, Classic Books Company

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• The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Hard Work, Achievement

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.413, Princeton University Press

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• I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

  Wendy Liebman

  Mother, Cat, Water

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• But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

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• Assume a virtue if you have it not.

  William Shakespeare

  Assuming, Assumption, Virtue

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

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• Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

  Albert Einstein

  Knowing, Purpose, Earth

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Feelings, Brain, Sole

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• Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Women, Virtue, Invention

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• Power is the ability not to have to please.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Inspirational, Power, Ability

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• The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Women, Reality, Suits

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• Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Women, Opportunity, Risk

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