“With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”
Vol. I, p. 188
William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879 (1885)
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To the First Protectorate Parliament (12 September 1654)
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
“The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.”
“I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.”
Source: The Waste Land
Lines on his Promised Pension; reported in Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, vol ii, page 379, and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I may have lost the election but I have not lost my reason to live.”
Causæ Bibendi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). These lines are a poetic translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the Biographia Britannica, second edition, vol. i. p. 131), which Menage and De la Monnoye attribute to Père Sirmond:
Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi:
Hospitis adventus; præsens sitis atque futura;
Et vini bonitas, et quælibet altera causa.
Menagiana, vol. i. p. 172.
“Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!”
Source: Twelve Years a Slave