Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Reflections (1981)
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
“An empty man is full of himself.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
From the writings of William Cowper Brann (1855 – 1898), known as Brann the Iconoclast. http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=zc6W3a68NsoC&pg=PA60&dq=%22patriot+on+an+empty%22+inauthor:Brann&as_brr=0&sig=an5LOns0MG1gg4C2x7VNE1HdeuI <br class="br">Misattributed
William Empson (1906–1984) English literary critic and poet
"Arachne" (1928), line 1; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 34.
The Complete Poems
“No empty handed man can lure a bird”
Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales
Source: The Canterbury Tales
“Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.”
Eric Clapton (1945) English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.”
Thomas Beecham (1879–1961) British conductor and impresario
Quoted by H. Proctor-Gregg, Beecham Remembered (1976), p. 154
Harry Crews (1935–2012) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Source: Blood and Grits