“Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
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French writer and film director 1914–1996Related quotes
“THE ODIUM
Did you know,
that lack of touch
sometimes hurts more
than a strike?”
Marcin Malek (1975) Polish writer
Among the things (2012), Page 134, the whole piece
David D. Levine (1961) science fiction writer
Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 3, “Seeking Passage” (p. 46)
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Quote (July 1917), # 1081, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
1916 - 1920
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. I.
“Why dost thou not strike? Strike, man!”
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
To his executioner, as reported in Curiosities of Literature (1835) by Isaac Disraeli, p. 302
Attributed
“Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.”
Honoré de Balzac book Physiology of Marriage
La puissance ne consiste pas à frapper fort ou souvent, mais à frapper juste.
Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined, aphorism XLIII.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
(British Pathé newsreel · They're Going To Get It - Roosevelt (1943) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_V6tL6QRQs) <br class="br">1940s, State of the Union Address (1943) <br class="br">Context: I cannot tell you when or where the United Nations are going to strike next in Europe. But we are going to strike — and strike hard. I cannot tell you whether we are going to hit them in Norway, or through the Low Countries, or in France, or through Sardinia or Sicily, or through the Balkans, or through Poland — or at several points simultaneously. But I can tell you that no matter where and when we strike by land, we and the British and the Russians will hit them from the air heavily and relentlessly. Day in and day out we shall heap tons upon tons of high explosives on their war factories and utilities and seaports.<br>Hitler and Mussolini will understand now the enormity of their miscalculations — that the Nazis would always have the advantage of superior air power as they did when they bombed Warsaw, and Rotterdam, and London and Coventry. That superiority has gone — forever.<br>Yes, we believe that the Nazis and the Fascists have asked for it — and they are going to get it.