As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 175
“If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.”
Spike Milligan (1918–2002) British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor
[Rommel? Gunner Who? A Confrontation in the Desert, 1989-12-01, Penguin Books Ltd, ISBN 978-0140041071]
“A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.”
Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917) English actor and theatre manager
Quoted by Max Beerbohm in Hebert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art Collected by Max Beerbohm http://books.google.com/books?id=wM08AAAAIAAJ&q="A+man+never+knows+what+a+fool+he+is+until+he+hears+himself+imitated+by+one"&pg=PA312#v=onepage (1920).
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.”
George Raymond Richard Martin book A Dance with Dragons
Source: A Dance with Dragons. Jojen
“if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Source: The Hunger Games
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
As quoted in Words for Teachers to Live By (2002) by Mary Engelbreit
“When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).”
James Montgomery (1771–1854) British editor, hymn writer, and poet
The Wanderer of Switzerland, Part v. Compare: "Say not that the good die" (translated from original Greek), Callimachus, Epigram x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
