Asenaca Caucau Fijian politician
Statement about beggars, 7 November 2005)
UFC 189 world tour: LA media scrum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk4GeTP7Iss (March 2015), MMA Fighting <br class="br">2010s, 2015
Asenaca Caucau Fijian politician
Statement about beggars, 7 November 2005)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer
Source: White Is for Magic
“If men must beg to live,
May the Creator also go wandering and perish.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse CVII.2
Tirukkural
“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) German composer and pianist
As quoted (prefaced by the qualification, "There is a story that one evening, on leaving, Brahms said...") in One Hundred Songs by Ten Masters: Volume II https://books.google.com/books?id=irUQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR12 (1917), edited by Henry T. Finck, p. XII <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: If there is any one here tonight whom I have not offended, I apologize!
“It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.”
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Lion's Heat
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic
Nathan the Wise http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/natws10.txt (1779), Act II, scene II
“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet