“I’m not an easy pill to swallow, not hard to vomit either.”
Josh Duffy (1978) Subject of the documentary THE MAYOR
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“To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.”
Act III, sc. 2, line 104; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
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Gary Snyder (1930) American poet
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“It seems to me that the argument of the defendant's counsel blows hot and cold at the same time.”
Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet (1746–1800) British judge
L'Anson v. Stuart (1787), 1 T. R. 753. Compare: ". . . . This would be blowing hot and cold". Lawrence, J., Berkeley Peerage Case (1811), 4 Camp. 412; "Hot and cold were in one body fixt; And soft with hard, and light with heavy mixt", Dryden.
Bjarne Stroustrup (1950) Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.
Does this sound dismal? It isn't.
It's the most wonderful life on earth.
Or so I feel.
E. E. Cummings
A Poet's Advice (1958)