“105. Deceive not thy physitian, confessor, nor lawyer.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“105. Deceive not thy physitian, confessor, nor lawyer.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Masculinity and femininity, elapsed, met in him
And every shame, every grief, every love.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"City of My Youth" (1984)
Context: Masculinity and femininity, elapsed, met in him
And every shame, every grief, every love.
If ever we accede to enlightenment,
He thought, it is in one compassionate moment
When what separated them from me vanishes
And a shower of drops from a bunch of lilacs
Pours on my face, and hers, and his, at the same time.
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
Civilization is Civilism
“I smoke pot every day, and I love it!”
Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.
-stock answer when asked if he's ever smoked cannabis
Attributed
Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader
Address to faculty, students and guests at Harvard University's Sanders Theater (August 2004)
2000s
“Every love story is a potential grief story.”
Julian Barnes (1946) English writer
Source: Levels of Life
“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Source: Much Ado About Nothing