“"Beware Okonkwo!" she warned. "Beware of exchanging words with Agbala. Does a man speak when a god speaks? Beware!"”
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 95)
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“Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
“Beware the man of a single book.”
Hominem unius libri timeo. / Timeo hominem unius libri.
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
As quoted by Leonard Sweet, The Greatest Story Never Told http://books.google.gr/books?id=KuTRcjWL91AC&dq=, section: "The Gift of Lyrics", Abingdon Press, 2012<br>Variant: "Beware the man of one book."<br>See also: Homo unius libri <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: I fear the man of a single book.
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, line 999–1005. Compare Publius Syrus, Maxim 289, "Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia" ("An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger").
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Variant: Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
Context: Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin’d:
Why am I forc’d, like Heav’n, against my mind,
To make Examples of another Kind?
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
“Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.”
Paulo Coelho book Adultery
Source: Adultery
“Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.”
William Feather (1889–1981) Publisher, Author
As quoted in Good Advice (1993), edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 215