„Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.“
— Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
„Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.“
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— Charles Stross, The Laundry Files
Classified Appendix (p. 354)
The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
„Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Variante: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
„I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.“
— John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018
Criticizing Hillary Clinton's health-care plan as being "eerily reminiscent" of the plan she advocated as First Lady, 11 October 2007 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-campaign10-2008sep10,0,311675.story
2000s, 2007
„some things you will think of yourself,… some things God will put into your mind“
— Homér, The Odyssey (Cowper)
Quelle: The Odyssey
— Suzanne Collins, buch Die Tribute von Panem – Flammender Zorn
Variante: It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
Quelle: Mockingjay
— Joe Orton English playwright and author 1933 - 1967
What the Butler Saw (1969), Act I
„Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.“
— Brian W. Aldiss, buch Greybeard
Quelle: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 121)
„Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Quelle: The Great Gatsby
„Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.“
— Rumi Iranian poet 1207 - 1273
„You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.“
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
— Anne Lamott Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954
Quelle: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
„No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.“
— Alice Sebold, buch Lucky
Variante: You save yourself or you remain unsaved
Quelle: Lucky
