Humphrey Lyttelton (1921–2008) English jazz trumpeter
OK who's going to identify that?
The Guardian, Saturday 26 April 2008
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Humphrey Lyttelton (1921–2008) English jazz trumpeter
OK who's going to identify that?
The Guardian, Saturday 26 April 2008
Attila the Stockbroker (1957) punk poet, folk punk musician and songwriter
"Supermodel" (1999-11-29), from attilathestockbroker.com http://www.attilathestockbroker.com. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
“I must follow him through thick and thin.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“Through thick and thin, both over hill and plain.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book iv. Compare: "Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush", Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book iii, Canto i, Stanza 17.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
Jozef Israëls (1824–1911) Dutch painter
translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek <br class="br">version in original Dutch (citaat van Jozef Israëls' brief, in het Nederlands): Zorg voor zuiverheid in de verf en niet zoo stinkerig dik van smeerderij, dun, dun, dun, en zo op het licht hier en daar een zetje dik[ke verf].. ..dikke binnenhuizen zijn onaangenaam - lang teekenen voor je begint en het prettig bij elkaar arrangeren voor gij aan het verwen gaat - als het geld u niet begroot, is het altijd nuttig om eens naar Rott. [Rotterdam!?] te gaan. <br class="br">Quote of a letter by Jozef Israels to painter David de la Mar, 1867; as cited in Mythen van het Atelier, ed. Mayken Jonkman & Eva Geudeker; d'jonge Hond, Zwolle/The Hague, 2010 – ISBN 9789089102065 ( source online http://delamar.bntours.nl/!mad1832-bronnen.html) <br class="br">Israels' painting technique did develop only rather slowly. In 1867 he still gave this rather traditional academic advice to the young painter nl:David de la Mar <br class="br">Quotes of Jozef Israels, 1840 - 1870
“Of the Budget as a whole, I say "Bravo". I am going to support it through thick and thin.”
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom
On Lloyd George's People's Budget, quoted in 'From Green Benches', Leicester Pioneer (8 May 1909).
“Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.”
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Canto 1, stanza 17
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III
“Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.”
Theocritus ancient greek poet
Idyll 6, line 19; translation by Richard Polwhele, from The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, with the Elegies of Tyrtæus (1810) p. 36.
Idylls