Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Said about Absinthe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe. Quoted in “Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde: With Reminiscences of the Author" by Ada Leverson (London: Duckworth, 1930)
“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
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Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist
Apologia pro vita sua (1968)
Context: The first thing I remember about the world — and I pray that it may be the last — is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
"A Ballade Of An Anti-puritan" http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/anti-puritan.html in The Book of Humorous Verse (1920) edited Carolyn Wells, p. 338
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
“To have a good memory the first thing you have to do is to trust your memory.”
Paul Sophus Epstein (1883–1966) Russian-American mathematician
Jesse W. M. DuMond, Paul Sophus Epstein http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=568&page=147, in Biographical Memoirs V.45, National Academy of Sciences (NAS), published by National Academies Press (1974), ISBN 0-309-02239-8, p. 140
“I am that last, that
final thing, the body
in a white sheet listening”
Li-Young Lee (1957) American writer
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Only partially true. The full quote: <br class="br">Only one danger could have jeopardised this development – if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of these ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement. <br class="br">He thought that if his adversaries had ignored the ‘weakest’ elements of his movement, they would harm the party. See zuriz https://zuriz.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/smashing-the-nucleus/ for more. <br class="br">Misattributed
Don Soderquist (1934–2016)
Don Soderquist “ Live Learn Lead to Make a Difference https://books.google.com/books?id=s0q7mZf9oDkC&lpg=pg=PP1&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2006 p. 58. <br class="br">On Doing Things Right