"Life of Sir James Mackintosh" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 50.
“Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife.”
John Tenniel (1820–1914) British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist
Urging Carroll to shorten Through the Looking-Glass; p. 14
M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators (2003)
Charles Bukowski book Factotum
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 17
Context: I got into bed, opened the bottle, worked the pillow into a hard knot behind my back, took a deep breath, and sat in the dark looking out of the window. It was the first time I had been alone for five days. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. I took a drink of wine.
“Who consciously throws himself into the water or onto the knife?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Idiot
The Idiot (1868–9)
“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”
Kim Il-sung (1912–1994) President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
With the century, vol. 5
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)
“Training and smoking pot like I should, instead of paying attention to other bullshit”
Nick Diaz (1983) American mixed martial artist
Diaz defending his hobby of smoking marijuana
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff (Ch. XIV).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Context: You talk of her mind being unsettled - how the devil could it be otherwise, in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity! From pity and charity. He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
“With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“To get wealth and security by guile
Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse LXVI.10
Tirukkural
“Vice thrives and lives by concealment.”
Alitur vitium, vivitque tegendo.
Book III, line 454
Georgics (29 BC)
