"Windsor, Duchess of" The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed on 21 November 2008 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t115.e3226
Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
“Too fat, too thin, what the fuck are you supposed to be? God bless the media!”
God's gift to women (2007)
“You drink only sparingly. Is the beer too thin?”
“No at all. I merely wish to keep my wits about me. It would not do if both of us became addled, and later woke up in doubt as to who was who.”
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 6, section 4 (p. 447)
“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Culture
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Variant: You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.”
Qui dépense trop n’est jamais riche.
La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Maison_du_chat-qui-pelote [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] (1830), translated by Clara Bell
“You can never, never have too many books”
“You can never give the Musalmans too much.”
Tilak's reply when some Hindus complained that they were giving too much to the Musalmans. Related by Muhammad Ali about the Lucknow talks: Md. Ali: speech at annual session of Congress at Coconada in 1923 quoted in V.P. Varma: Modern Indian Political Thought, and quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 126
“My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in”
Source: Book of Longing
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
