Quotable Quotes: Do You Know These Women?
by Miki Saxon
I came across a neat little book of quotes today and thought I’d share some of them with you. Each quote is actually a postcard, but there’s no way I’ll ever tear the book apart and mail them.
A few I chose are fairly well-known, such as Eleanor Roosevelt’s comment, “Remember, no-one can make you feel inferior without your consent” and I’ll add that you should retract it every time you notice you did it.
Jane Austen said, “Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery;” good advice, but we all have negative times in our lives.
When you do, remember Katherine Mansfield, who offered a wonderful thought when she said, “I am treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.”
Billie Holiday warns, “Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose,” which true, especially in the office.
Lily Tomlin is a woman after my own heart; she said, “If you can’t be direct, why be?” I’m always accused of being too blunt, so now I have a comeback.
We’ve all experienced the truth of Barbara Stanwyck’s comment, “Egotism: usually just a case of mistaken nonentity”
Which leads us to what Fran Lebowitz said, “Children give life to the concept of immaturity,” however, I’ve met quite a number of adults who animate the concept quite adequately.
And that brings us to our final quote from Suzanne Douglass, “To err is human, to forgive takes restraint, to forget you forgave is the mark of a saint.”
I suggest that we all do our best to achieve that mark!
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