
Vice and Virtue, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
On his poverty-stricken background - "Rare Pictures Of TB Joshua's Early Life Surface" http://zambianeye.com/archives/34213 Zambian Eye (June 25 2015)
Vice and Virtue, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
Imperfection http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21399/Imperfection
From the poems written in English
“Man, whence is he? / Too bad to be the work of a god, too good for the work of chance.”
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 61; usually attributed to Doris Lessing in the form: "Man — who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
Misattributed
“Man, whence is he?
Too bad to be the work of a god, too good for the work of chance.”
Der Mensch, wo ist er her?
Zu schlecht für einen Gott, zu gut fürs Ungefähr.
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 61
Variant: Man — who is he? Too bad to be the work of God; Too good for the work of chance!
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
Source: The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness
“There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.”
KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 5, 2003 (context: João Goulart) http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=299
Quotes 2000s, 2003