Rotten Quotes - Page 5
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.283
WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.
1826 On Westbury, Wiltshire. Rural Rides (published 1830), entry for 3 Sep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
Nicholas Culpeper (1698). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until This. Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; Containing a Compleat Method of Physick, Whereby a Ma May Preserve His Body in Health, Or Cure Himself, Being Sick, for Three Pence Charge, with Such Things Only as Grow in England, They Being Most Fit for English Bodies. Herein is Also Shewed These Seven Things, Viz. 1. The Way of Making Plaisters, Oyntments, Oyls, Pultisses, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps Or Waters, of All Sorts of Physical Herbs, ... 7. The Way of Mixing Medicines According to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body Afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology”, p.273
Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.211, Penguin
Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.
Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.221, Souvenir Press