
Source: Recipe for Salad, p. 383
Source: A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith
1755
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Source: Recipe for Salad, p. 383
Source: A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith
“I would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive.”
On her father after discovering he raped her older sister, as quoted in Malta Biss, Jetzt spricht Nastassja http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/klaus-kinski/jetzt-spricht-nastassja-kinski-ueber-ihren-vater-28071840.bild.htm, Bild, January 13, 2013
“Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.”
Letter to Edmund Jenings, 27 September 1782 http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-13-02-0217, also quoted in John Adams (2008) by David McCullough, p. 272
1780s
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
On winning the Nobel Prize, TIME magazine (16 October 1978)
"The Monitions of the Unseen", p. 31.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)
“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”
Variant: I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.
Source: Woman To Woman: Candid Conversations From Me To You
The Life of Edward Jenner: With Illustrations of His Doctrines, and Selections from His Correspondence https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=7K9iwCjoUgkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false, Vol. 2 (1838), by John Baron, p. 295