“In every age and clime we see
Two of a trade can never agree.”
Fable XXI, "The Rat-catcher and Cats". Comparable to: "Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet", Hesiod, Works and Days, 24; "Le potier au potier porte envie" (translated: "The potter envies the potter"), Bohn, Handbook of Proverbs; also in Arthur Murphy, The Apprentice, act iii
Fables (1727)
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
N'en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce,
En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse :
Tous les hommes sont fous, et, malgré tous leurs soins,
Ne diffèrent entre eux que du plus ou du moins.
Satire 4, l. 37
Satires (1716)
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
Juggling Jerry, st. 9 (1859).
“Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.”
James Beattie (1735–1803) Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher
Book i. Stanza 25.
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771)
“God is one, but He is worshipped in different ages and climes under different names and aspects.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 458
Context: In a potter's shop there are vessels of different shapes and forms — pots, jars, dishes, plates, etc., — but all are made of the same clay. So God is one, but He is worshipped in different ages and climes under different names and aspects.
“Under no circumstances would we agree to any free-trade deal that put the NHS on the table.”
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
Boris Johnson: Premiership will be the start of a golden age https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49107417 BBC News (25 July 2019) <br class="br">2010s, 2019
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
Discussing Wrigley Field (where he was currently hitting .693 for the season, with 9 hits in 13 AB, with 3 home runs and 9 RBI); as quoted in "Feast Then Famine For Pirates: Split Means Lost Ground In Race" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o2scAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Fk8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4554%2C1706304 by Lester J. Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Friday, July 7, 1961), p. 26. To access article, drag image from right to left, bringing relevant headline immediately into view, displayed on its side; continue dragging until you reach the fifth paragraph from the end. <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1961</big>
“A man with two trades to his credit can easily learn another ten.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
Richard Menta American journalist
Source RIAA and MPAA sue Morpheus, Grokster and KaZaa http://web.archive.org/web/20020803182858/www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/sue_morpheus.html - 10/03/2001 <br class="br">Quotes from the MP3 Newswire
“But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.”
Cressida Cowell (1966) British writer
Source: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons