If life hands you lemons, make lemonade (1908)

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"YOU LEMONS" + "MAKE LEMONADE"--9,130 Google hits, 7,310 Google Groups hits

   What does Fred Shapiro have for this popular proverb?  This was added to
the recent OXFORD DICTIONARY OF PROVERBS, but I can't read inside the book
through Amazon.
   A brief internet search fails to find a single name or date attached to
this.
  (OT:  What if life gives you ten hours a day of parking tickets?  What do
you do then?)


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"If life gives you lemons then make lemonade."
Anon.


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From: Grace McGarvie (gemcgar at attbi.com)
Subject: TROUBLE
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Date: 2002-03-27 12:50:41 PST
(...)
When life hands you lemons - break out the tequila and salt.  Anonymous
If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make
Bloody Marys.  Anonymous


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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, pee in it, and serve it to the
people that piss you off. - Jack Handy


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> Dogbert: "Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemon, make
> lemonade."
> Dilbert: "But i'm allergic to citrus."
> Dogbert: "Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemons, swell up
> and die."Scott Adams (1957 - ), "Dilbert" comic strip



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Reno Evening Gazette - 4/25/1908
...OPTIMIST. An optimist is a man who can MAKE LEMONADE out of all LEMONS
handed him.....neighbor a ing and the readers of trying to MAKE out whether they
are throwing bouquets..
Reno, Nevada Saturday, April 25, 1908  667 k
Pg. 4, col. 2:
      _THE REAL OPTIMIST._
   An optimist is a man who can make lemonade out of all lemons handed to
him.--Biddleford Journal.

Iowa Recorder - 11/30/1910
...said that an optimist is a man who can MAKE LEMONADE out of LEMONS that
are handed to him.....about It. sold me two bottles of stuff to MAKE this hair
grow. is very strange it won't..

Atlanta Constitution - 4/14/1914
...paper says optimist is one who can MAKE LEMONADE out of the LEMONS that
are handed to.....federation and every activity and walk of .LIFE to speakers
present the imperative need.....attorneys with the request that he MAKE the race
for the legislature, will MAKE.....The first obligation of every community is
LIFE conservation. Atlanta's women, as usual..
Atlanta, Georgia Tuesday, April 14, 1914  603 k

Indianapolis Star - 6/18/1911
...George, an optimist is a man who' can MAKE LEMONADE out of the LEMONS
handed Mr. Werba.....marked change has entered Into the general LIFE of colored
children, according to Mr.....and furthering of this season's successes MAKE the
Werbai Luescher busy places these.....Ind., delivered an address on and
Modern LIFE. in which he ridiculed New York as a..
Indianapolis, Indiana Sunday, June 18, 1911  884 k

Humeston New Era - 12/6/1911
...senator, "is a man who is able to MAKE LEMONADE at night out of all tbe
LEMONS.....save him from failure in college and in LIFE. "But, general, you the
studerft replied.....is to dissolve the great organizations and MAKE Your
grocer authorized to give you free.....possession your health may be your LIFE
itself. See that you get what you ask..
Humeston, Iowa Wednesday, December 06, 1911  713 k

Indiana Democrat - 12/6/1911
...is able to do, in the opinion of said MAKE LEMONADE at night out of sll
the LEMONS.....the county jail refusing to see any in my LIFE. I said them in
that room nowhere else.....Is to dissolre the great organizations and MAKE them
smaller, which Is a backward There.....than annually. She has spent many cne
or MAKE any statement, an interthousands In..
Indiana, Pennsylvania Wednesday, December 06, 1911  723 k