James Hamilton (1814–1867) Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 88.
Letter to her brother, (20 December 1840) as quoted in The Feminist Papers (1973) by Alice Rossi.
James Hamilton (1814–1867) Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 88.
“Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto III, line 1
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat.”
Peter Mere Latham (1789–1875) English physician and educator
Book I, p. 138.
Collected Works
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (1683–1706) sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet
Source: Attributed, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso tr. Paul Williams 2004, p.13
Rudy Giuliani (1944–2001) American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New York City
Speech before the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. August 30, 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3613480.stm
“Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
"Early Forms of Liability," Lecture I from The Common Law. (1909).
1900s
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 271
“… freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.”
Louisa May Alcott book Little Women
Source: Little Women