Quotes for the Depression Forums 06-30-10
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:05 pm
Thank you Stephen for sending these for the Corner.
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
-- Rita Rudner
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
-- Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
-- Don Juan Manuel
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
-- Quentin Crisp
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
-- Rita Rudner
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
-- Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
-- Don Juan Manuel
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
-- Quentin Crisp