“2707. If the Mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the Mountain.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Of Boldness
Essays (1625)
“2707. If the Mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the Mountain.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Tell Hill he must come up … Strike the tent.”
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
Reported as his last words. There are suggestions that Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman embellished Lee's final moments; as Lee suffered a stroke on September 28, 1870. Dying two weeks later, on October 12, 1870, shortly after 9 a.m. from the effects of pneumonia. Lee's stroke had resulted in aphasia, rendering him unable to speak. When interviewed the four attending physicians and family stated "he had not spoken since 28 September..."
Misattributed
David Jewett Waller, Sr. (1815–1893) Pennsylvanian minister and civic leader
1875, as attributed in Preacher, Entrepreneur: Rev. D.J. Waller Sr. by William M. Ballie (2011)
Donald Justice (1925–2004) Poet, teacher
Another Song
The Summer Anniversaries (1960)
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“Over the hills he comes sublime,
Bridegroom of Earth, and brother of Time!”
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
Activity, l. 1-6.
Ballads for the Times (1851)
Context: Open the casement, and up with the Sun!
His gallant journey is just begun;
Over the hills his chariot is roll'd,
Banner'd with glory, and burnish'd with gold,—
Over the hills he comes sublime,
Bridegroom of Earth, and brother of Time!
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) American artist
As quoted in Tampa Bay Magazine (January/February 2008), p. 205
“You know you're over the hill when the hill is over you.”
Jacob M. Appel book Millard Salter's Last Day
Millard Salter's Last Day (2017)