“I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.”
Oedipus (Line 1079?).
Oedipus Rex
Variant: I am Fortune's child,
Not man's; her mother face hath ever smiled
Above me, and my brethren of the sky,
The changing Moons, have changed me low and high.
There is my lineage true, which none shall wrest
From me; who then am I to fear this quest?
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Hannibal (-247–-183 BC) military commander of Carthage during the Second Punic War
As quoted in Hannibal : Enemy of Rome (1992) by Leonard Cottrell, p. 150.
Mohammed Alkobaisi (1970) Iraqi Islamic scholar
Understanding Islam, "Morals and Ethics" http://vod.dmi.ae/media/96716/Ep_03_Morals_and_Ethics Dubai Media
“I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”
Lisa Gardner (1956) American author
“No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.”
Karl G. Maeser (1828–1901) prominent Utah educator and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly quoted in The Latter-Day Saints' Millenial Star, Vol. 70 https://books.google.com/books?id=eItJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA452&lpg=PA452&dq=He+that+cheats+another+is+a+knave;+but+he+that+cheats+himself+is+a+fool.&source=bl&ots=WBAQiPjQX6&sig=WLEdKN2_kXPXj8jZALKCp2dguaQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXmNeF_7HMAhUH42MKHdySDgsQ6AEILzAE#v=onepage&q=fool&f=false
Renée Vivien (1877–1909) British poet who wrote in the French language
Quoted in Mercure de France, I-XII (1953), trans. Jeannette H. Foster (1977)
Sonny Bill Williams (1985) New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer
Williams on the controversial nature of his flitting between football codes. Sonny Bill Williams regrets nothing http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/sonny-bill-williams-regrets-nothing-20131129-2yfvd.html, by Brad Walter, Sydney Morning Herald, dated 29 November 2013.
“Suppose my child ask me what the fairytale means, what am I to say?”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
If you do not know what it means, what is easier than to say so? If you do see a meaning in it, there it is for you to give him. A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art that it needs THIS IS A HORSE written under it, what can it matter that neither you nor your child should know what it means? It is there not so much to convey a meaning as to wake a meaning. If it do not even wake an interest, throw it aside. A meaning may be there, but it is not for you. If, again, you do not know a horse when you see it, the name written under it will not serve you much.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)