Spike Milligan (1918–2002) British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor
The Goon Show, Season 7, Episode 25: "The Histories of Pliny the Elder" (28 March 1957)
Speech "The Elections in St. Petersburg" (January 1913) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/ESP13.html <br class="br">Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
Spike Milligan (1918–2002) British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor
The Goon Show, Season 7, Episode 25: "The Histories of Pliny the Elder" (28 March 1957)
“but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.”
Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer
Source: Magical Thinking: True Stories
“5451. We never know the Worth of Water, till the Well is dry.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
The Wild Swans At Coole http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1712/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
“I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.”
Scott Ritter (1961) American weapons inspector and writer
Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc. http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid%3A42834, Interview with the Memphis Flyer, May 8 2008 <br class="br">2008
Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464) First ruler of the Medici political dynasty
Attributed to Cosimo de' Medici in: Jean Lucas-Dubreton (1961). Daily Life in Florence in the Time of the Medici. p. 58