
Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 121.
Attributed
Literary Lapses (1910)
Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 121.
Attributed
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 16.
Der Staat muss fördern und darf nicht einschränken. In diesem Sinne muss er Gärtner sein und nicht Zaun. Wir sollten den Menschen zutrauen, dass sie sich engagieren und Verantwortung übernehmen wollen.
Interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (sueddeutsche.de) on May 20, 2006
2006
“You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.”
On Obama winning the White House
CNN Election Night in America 11/7/2008
As quoted in Futurism, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 64.
1910, Manifesto of Futurist Painters,' April 1910
As translated by Stanley Kunitz
In those years only the dead smiled,
Glad to be at rest:
And Leningrad city swayed like
A needless appendix to its prisons.
Translated by D. M. Thomas
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), Prologue
“Am I the cat that takes the bird?
To her the hunted, not the hunter.”
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
“Others may fence themselves with walls and houses”
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: Others may fence themselves with walls and houses, when they do such deeds as these, and wrap themselves in darkness—aye, they have many a device to hide themselves. Another may shut his door and station one before his chamber to say, if any comes, He has gone forth! he is not at leisure! But the true Cynic will have none of these things; instead of them, he must wrap himself in Modesty: else he will but bring himself to shame, naked and under the open sky. That is his house; that is his door; that is the slave that guards his chamber; that is his darkness! (111).
11 November 2010 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/11/11/a_polarizing_pelosi/
2010s
"Tarquin of Cheapside"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)