“There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.”
Max Brand (1892–1944) American novelist, and short story writer
On writing westerns
Attributed
Kindness, Clarity, and Insight (1984).
Context: It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
“There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.”
Max Brand (1892–1944) American novelist, and short story writer
On writing westerns
Attributed
“Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!”
tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Ach.+1078 <br class="br">Acharnians, line 1078 <br class="br">Acharnians (425 BC)
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
On his family <br class="br">Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2083509&type=story
“It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Helen to Arthur
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
Letter (6 September 1910) to his father, John Coolidge, who had been elected to the Vermont State Senate; in Your Son Calvin Coolidge, as cited in Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (2011), Ed. David Pietrusza, Bookbrewer, "Legislation".
1910s, Letter to John Coolidge (1910)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
E 91
Variant translation: A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)