“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.”

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Elizabeth Taylor33

British-American actress 1932–2011

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.”

H. Beam Piper book Little Fuzzy

Source: Little Fuzzy

“You win some, you lose some. And when you lose, you have to pull yourself together and go back for more. Otherwise, the other side wins by default.”

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 (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Variant: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Variant: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.”

John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States

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 <br class="br">2000s, 2007