Source: Epigrams, p. 363
“So in this way of writing without thinking,
Thou hast a strange alacrity in sinking.”
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608) English politician and poet
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset "On Mr Edward Howard, upon his British Princes"; cited from Geoffrey Grigson (ed.) The Oxford Book of Satirical Verse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 74
Misattributed
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
Agatha Christie book Murder in Mesopotamia
Dr Reilly
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
Context: Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. At least that's the way it is with me when I have to make a speech. Someone's got to catch hold of my coat-tails and pull me down by main force.
“He who comes from hell, easily find the solution to many difficulties.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Chi proviene dall'inferno trova facilmente la soluzione a molte difficoltà.
Source: prevale.net
George Santayana book Scepticism and Animal Faith
"Objections to Belief in Substance", p. 201
Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923)
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
“The more a person believes he’s free to think, the more I believe he’s a slave of his thoughts”
Ali Al-Wardi (1913–1995) Iraqi sociologist
James Alison (1959) Christian theologian, priest
Source: Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001), " The man blind from birth and the Creator's subversion of sin http://girardianlectionary.net/res/fbr_ch-1_john9.htm", p. 16-17.
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
Context: An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. Everyone is an agnostic as to the beliefs or creeds they do not accept. Catholics are agnostic to the Protestant creeds, and the Protestants are agnostic to the Catholic creed. Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded. In a popular way, in the western world, an agnostic is one who doubts or disbelieves the main tenets of the Christian faith.
