The Herons of Elmwood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Incognita of Raphael, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 10th ed. (1919).
2nd Public Talk, Berkeley, California (4 February 1969)
1960s
“Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
Variant: To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 22.
Stanza 7.
The Blessed Damozel http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/715.html (1850)
On animals. Observations on Man https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029011902#page/n5/mode/2up (1749; 6th edition, 1834), Part I, Chapter III, Section VII.
“Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.”
Variant: Sometimes [... ] real love is silent as well as blind.
Source: The Stand
“Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.”
Address Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States — Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles (15 July 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project -->
1960
Context: Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.
Upholding the constitutionality of a "moment of silent prayer" in schools in Wallce v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38 (1985) (concurring).
