Attributed on the internet; a popular Vietnamese saying
Misattributed, Not Chinese
Source: The Corporate Revolution in America, 1957, p. 288
“If Rio Ferdinand is worth £120,000 a week, Cannavaro is worth a hundred million a day.”
Eamon Dunphy, on Fabio Cannavaro's performance during Germany 2006 http://www.elevenaside.com/quoteoftheday/
“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
“For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?”
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“Every single individual worth what he thinks he is worth.”
Original: Ogni singolo individuo vale quanto pensa di valere.
Source: prevale.net
“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.”
"A Bookshop Idyll"
Cf. Lord Byron, Don Juan, "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence."
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956 (1956)
“I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.”
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Inceldom
“We aged a hundred years, and this
happened in a single hour”
"In Memoriam, July 19, 1914"
White Flock (1917)
Context: We aged a hundred years, and this
happened in a single hour:
the short summer had already died,
the body of the ploughed plains smoked.
“A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.”
Stanza 2
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)
