Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 389
“A business with an income at its heels
Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 615.
“To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live for a hundred years like a jackal.”
As quoted in Encyclopedia of Asian History (1988) Vol. 4, p. 104
Variants:
It is far better to live like a lion for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.
It is far better to live like a tiger for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.
Variant mentioned in Tipu Sultan : A Study in Diplomacy and Confrontation (1982) by B. Sheikh Ali, p. 329
“Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”
“[The] swarming, grunting masses of jackals…”
On investigative journalists:
"The world according to Conrad Black", 2007
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 82.
“War is a bloody business, a killing business.”
Source: George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton%27s_speech_to_the_Third_Army
“You just click your heels and think there's no place like being pwned.”
Source: Pale Demon
Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti Gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra.
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Il Gattopardo (1958)
