Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 266
“Understand therefore, that one thing in the scripture representeth divers things. A serpent figureth Christ in one place, and the devil in another; and a lion doth likewise.”
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
Context: Understand therefore, that one thing in the scripture representeth divers things. A serpent figureth Christ in one place, and the devil in another; and a lion doth likewise. Christ by leaven signifieth God’s word in one place; and in another signifieth thereby the traditions of the Pharisees, which soured and altered God’s word for their advantage.
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William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Arnole, in Ch. 45 : not in conclusion
The Visitor (2002)
Context: Ignorance perpetuates itself just as knowledge does. Men write false documents, they preach false doctrine, and those beliefs survive to inspire wickedness in later generations.... Conversely, some men write and teach about the truth, only to be declared heretic by the wicked. In such cases evil has the advantage, for it will do anything to suppress truth, but the good man limits what he will do to suppress falsehood.
One might almost make a rule of it: "Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic."
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
1880s, Garfield's Words (1882)
“Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Saying 62
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
“Some things are of that nature as to make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.”
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Part II
“In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.”
Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
“… one damn thing after another … one damn thing over and over.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
From an October 1930 letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, as variously described by her biographers, e.g.:
[L]ife was not so much "one damn thing after another" as "one damn thing over and over"
As paraphrased ("she had sent [...] a half-comic note, complaining that...") with quoted phrases in Jean Gould, The Poet and Her Book: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1969), p. 198
[L]ife isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over
As paraphrased ("she writes that...") and apparently Bowlderized in Miriam Gurko, Restless spirit: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1962), p. 197
[I]t was not true that life is one damn thing after another — it was one damn thing over and over
As paraphrased ("Edna had written [...] that...") in Joan Dash, A Life of One's Own: Three Gifted Women and the Men they Married (1973), p. 189
The paraphrase by Dash appears to be the origin of later popularly attributed variants, e.g.:
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.
As attributed without citation in Psychoanalysis Today: A Case Book (1991) by Elizabeth Thorne and Shirley Herscovitch Schaye, p. 93
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same dang thing over and over again.
As attributed without citation in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992) by Carolyn Warner
