Don't Grow a Wishbone Where Your Backbone Ought to Be

„Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."

— Elizabeth Gilbert, book Eat, Pray, Love

This derives from a folk proverb sometimes attributed to Clementine Paddleford, but in use as an "old proverb" as early as 1908, when Paddeford was only 10 years old.
Misattributed
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

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American writer 1969

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Don't Grow a Wishbone Where Your Backbone Ought to Be

„Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."

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Don't Grow a Wishbone Where Your Backbone Ought to Be

„Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."

Elizabeth Gilbert 232

Related quotes

„We need a backbone, not a wishbone."

„To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone."

„No! You don't wear a hat on your gentles! You wear a hat on your head where you're supposed to wear a hat!"

„To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

„Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character."

„Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life."

„For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down."

„Where there's no stop and goa thought may wet your face,a breath arrest your stare."

„If you could stop thinking, letting go of trying control your world w/your mind, where would your attention go?"

„Wear your heart on your skin in this life."

„Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield."

„Wear your love like heaven."

„I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory."

„If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train."

„[With reference to a 'how to date' book] Because you've been on dates where y'know, you forget to open your eyes and wear pants and speak English."

„The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?"

„One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman."

„The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress."

„Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?"

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„Where there's no stop and go
a thought may wet your face,
a breath arrest your stare."