#quotations

I've always worried a lot. And frankly I'm good at it." The late Erma Bombeck, one of the funniest women ever. ↗

— Catherine Robertson

#life

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#books #good #good thing #man #quotations

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. ↗

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#insulting #point #quotations #use #words

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ↗

— William Feather

#experience #fables #folk #into #nation

A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my enemies," answered the stateman, "I have had them all shot. ↗

— Robert Greene

#forgiveness

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead-language #death #eulogy #funeral #funny

It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness... ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#theater #theatre-quotations #faith

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. ↗

— Robert Burns

#armour #defensive #existence #favourite #i

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#furnishes #plaything #quotations

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. ↗

— Barbara Pym

#man #obscure #quite #quotations #read