John Fletcher Wit Without Money
Act V, scene 2. Compare William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, introduction, scene 1, line 5. Also Scene 2, line 146. ("Slip" in folio).
Wit Without Money (c. 1614; published 1639)
Source: Pants on Fire
John Fletcher Wit Without Money
Act V, scene 2. Compare William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, introduction, scene 1, line 5. Also Scene 2, line 146. ("Slip" in folio).
Wit Without Money (c. 1614; published 1639)
“For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
“If I thought about it, I never would have done it, I guess I would have let it slide.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)
“No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.”
Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Variant: and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Hello Rabbit, is that you?""Let's pretend it isn't", said Rabbit, "and see what happens.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Variant: Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”
"Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)