Gardiner C. Means (1896–1988) American economist
Source: The Corporate Revolution in America, 1957, p. 288
Attributed on the internet; a popular Vietnamese saying
Misattributed, Not Chinese
Gardiner C. Means (1896–1988) American economist
Source: The Corporate Revolution in America, 1957, p. 288
“If Rio Ferdinand is worth £120,000 a week, Cannavaro is worth a hundred million a day.”
Fabio Cannavaro (1973) Italian footballer
Eamon Dunphy, on Fabio Cannavaro's performance during Germany 2006 http://www.elevenaside.com/quoteoftheday/
“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“Every single individual worth what he thinks he is worth.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Ogni singolo individuo vale quanto pensa di valere.
Source: prevale.net
“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.”
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English novelist, poet, critic, teacher
"A Bookshop Idyll"
Cf. Lord Byron, Don Juan, "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence."
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956 (1956)
“I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.”
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Inceldom
“We aged a hundred years, and this
happened in a single hour”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
"In Memoriam, July 19, 1914"
White Flock (1917)
Context: We aged a hundred years, and this
happened in a single hour:
the short summer had already died,
the body of the ploughed plains smoked.
“A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Stanza 2
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)