
“Presidential ambition is a disease which can only be cured by embalming fluid.”
Quoting from Estes Kefauver
Misattributed
Source: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 4 (p. 34)
“Presidential ambition is a disease which can only be cured by embalming fluid.”
Quoting from Estes Kefauver
Misattributed
“Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.”
The Mistress. For Hope; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Query 30 : Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another, and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition?
Opticks (1704)
Source: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 2, Of Natural Right
On Milton (1825)
“The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25439 (1888), Ch. 1.