“Like the watermen that row one way and look another.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 2.
“Like the watermen that row one way and look another.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Albert Einstein, in The World as I See It (1949) http://books.google.com/books?id=ZpdlRg2IJUcC&pg=PT32&dq=%22en+like+Democritus,+Francis+of+Assisi,+and+Spinoza+are+closely+akin+to+one+another%22&hl=en&ei=-J7LTqqNJaG90AHAir0E&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CGYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22en%20like%20Democritus%2C%20Francis%20of%20Assisi%2C%20and%20Spinoza%20are%20closely%20akin%20to%20one%20another%22&f=false <br class="br">Context: The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.
“Quick quiz: What does 'unoccupied' or 'liberated' Palestinian land look like? Answer: Like Gaza.”
Ilana Mercer South African writer
"Make Jerusalem Safe Again" http://www.unz.com/imercer/make-jerusalem-safe-again/ The Unz Review, January 25, 2017 <br class="br">2010s, 2017
“Commander: What's that?
Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
“It looks like it's from another planet. A good planet. A planet with better designers”
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Introduction of the first iMac computer in Cupertino, California, (6 May 1998)
1990s
“I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.”
Izaak Walton book The Compleat Angler
Part I, ch. 5.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
“One looks like a grenade went off in there. The other looks like a bad knife cut.”
Peter Rhee (1961) American surgeon
Comparing gunshot wounds from AR-15 style rifles and handguns ([Sarah, Zhang, June 17, 2016, September 24, 2018, What an AR-15 can do to the Human Body, Wired, https://www.wired.com/2016/06/ar-15-can-human-body/]; [America’s Failure to Protect Its Children from School Shootings Is a National Disgrace, John, Cassidy, February 15, 2018, September 24, 2018, The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/americas-failure-to-protect-its-children-from-school-shootings-is-a-national-disgrace-parkland-florida]; [The one number that shows America’s problem with school shootings is unique, Amanda, Erickson, February 15, 2018, September 24, 2018, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/15/the-one-number-that-shows-americas-problem-with-school-shootings-is-unique/]).
“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
From the Tracts Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland (c. 1766), not published during Burke's lifetime.
1760s