“I'd rather lie down than jump up.”

— Mixmaster Morris

i-D Magazine, 1994. Said in response to the musical style known as "jump up".

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English ambient DJ 1965

Luiz Carlos Alborghetti (1945–2009) Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure

Original: (pt) Eu prefiro uma verdade que me faça chorar a uma mentira que me faça sorrir!

“Head like a hole,
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole,
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.Bow down before the one you serve;
You're going to get what you deserve.”

Trent Reznor (1965) American musician

Head Like a Hole.
Song lyrics

“Poetry is not the most important thing in life… I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

“If you are going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.”

Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America

To John Dean in April 1973 http://books.google.com/?id=JpRAAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22If+you+are+going+to+lie+you+go+to+jail+for+the+lie+rather+than+the+crime+So+believe+me+don't+ever+lie%22&pg=PA42. Dean was due to testify before the Senate Watergate Committee, which he did on 25 June 1973.
1970s

“"What?" said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Three.

“She quarreled with the nanny and accused her of brushing Misha's teeth sideways rather than up and down.”

Woody Allen book Mere Anarchy

Mere Anarchy (2007)

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist

A popular internet misattribution.[citation needed] A number of variants of the "rain on your parade" theme appear, with different sources
Misattributed

“…I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.”

Richard Pryor (1940–2005) American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer, and MC

At the end of track 9 "Religion" on his 1971 comedy album "Craps (After Hours)"

“By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man—
some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—
than rule down here over all the breathless dead.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XI. 489–492 (tr. Robert Fagles); Achilles' ghost to Odysseus.
Alexander Pope's translation:
: Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear
A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air,
A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread,
Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
With many a weary step, and many a groan,
Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone;
The huge round stone, resulting with a bound,
Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. P. S. Worsley's translation:
: Rather would I, in the sun's warmth divine,
Serve a poor churl who drags his days in grief,
Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Of course one can jump up and down yelling Europe! Europe! Europe! But it amounts to nothing and it means nothing.”

Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic

Bien entendu, on peut sauter sur sa chaise comme un cabri en disant l’Europe ! l’Europe ! l’Europe ! mais cela n’aboutit à rien et cela ne signifie rien.
Interview on a presidential campaign, December 1965 INA archive of the video http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=I00012536 (De Gaulle meant that he wanted to build a European Union on realities, i.e. the existing nation-states with their respective interests – not on slogans and abstractions)
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2

“I'd rather lie down than jump up.”

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