Lemons Quotes

• When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt.

  Sanjaya Malakar

  Giving, Salt, Tequila

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• It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health.

  Maud Grieve

  Fruit, Valuable

  Maud Grieve (1971). “A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses”, p.475, Courier Corporation

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• It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

  Louise Hay

  Order, Giving, Rotten

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Aug 04, 2009

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• When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?

  Pablo Neruda

  Sun, Creeds

  Pablo Neruda (1974). “Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)”, p.203, Grove Press

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• Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Sadness, Yellow, Mind

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• A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Opportunity, Saws, Advantage

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• If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, Settling, Scene

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• When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

  Wanda Sykes

  Unique, Giving, Caves

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• Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Food, Cutting, Sea

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• So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sweet, House, Proportion

  Pablo Neruda (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.235, Grove Press

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• Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

  Derek Walcott

  Summer, Prose

  Derek Walcott (1969). “In a green night: poems, 1948-1960”, Jonathan Cape

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• No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.
  Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Horse, Character, Bad Day

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• If life gives you lemons, make apple juice and make people wonder how the hell you did it.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Apples, People, Giving

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• Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me

  Eva Cassidy

  Stars, Clouds, Funeral

  Song: Somewhere over the rainbow

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• When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Orange, Giving, Life Gives You Lemons

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  I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

  Ron White

  Inspirational, Funny, Encouraging

  "Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again". Comedy, Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• If you have a lemon; make lemonade.

  Howard Gossage

  Fortune Cookie, Belief, Lemonade

  Howard Luck Gossage, Kim B. Rotzoll, Jarlath Graham, June Barrows Mussey (1986). “Is there any hope for advertising?”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• If life hands you lemons,keep them. Because, hey, free lemons.-T-Shirt

  Darynda Jones

  Hands, Hey, T Shirt

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead: Number 3 in series”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Life, Encouraging

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• When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

  Henry Rollins

  Life, Hands, Fruit

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• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  Maya Angelou

  Pie, Trying, Why Not

  "No surrender" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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• A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

  Ian Fleming

  Dry, Vodka, Martini

  Dr. No ch. 14 (1958).

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• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

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• ...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Book, Garden, Feelings

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• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Winter, Oil, Juice

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for purple-sprouting broccoli with olive oil mash, plus scallops and jerusalem artichokes with celery and lemon" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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