
“And don't despise your betters cause they're old.”
"The Cross Roads; or, The Haymaker's Story"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
Never Too Late, Everyone Deserves Music (2003)
“And don't despise your betters cause they're old.”
"The Cross Roads; or, The Haymaker's Story"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“I don't believe in fear of divine vengeance, and I do believe in justice and equality….”
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 57
“Fear needn’t be grounded in fact to cause problems.”
Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 9 (p. 153)
“Whoso causes terror is himself more fearful.”
Qui terret plus ipse timet.
Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti, line 290 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_IV_Consulatu_Honorii*.html#290.
This song, Somewhere Only We Know, originated with the group Keane, in 2004, although Allen did a very popular version of it, on a YouTube video in 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mer6X7nOY_o.
Misattributed
“Don't fear for your life, fear for your honor.”
In Russian: Не бойся за шкуру, бойся за честь.
Source: Speech in Lugansk, March 14, 2014. Video https://ok.ru/video/4652139916 available on ok.ru.