“Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.”
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Suldrun's Garden (1983), Chapter 26, section 4 (p. 299)
“Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.”
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Suldrun's Garden (1983), Chapter 26, section 4 (p. 299)
“4797. The Tongue is not Steel, yet it cuts sorely.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to Cassandra (1799-01-21) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Walter P. Stacy (1884–1951) American judge
State v. Beal http://books.google.com/books?id=lEFOAQAAIAAJ&q=%22it+would+be+almost+unbelievable+if+history+did+not+record+the+tragic+fact+that+men+have+gone+to+war+and+cut+each+other's+throats+because+they+could+not+agree+as+to+what+was+to+become+of+them+after+their+throats+were+cut%22&pg=PA302#v=onepage, 199 N.C. 278 (1930).
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
As quoted in Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company (2004) by Owen W. Linzmayer
2000s
“When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.”
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)
“108. A Fool’s Tongue is long enough to cut his own Throat.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Charles Haughey (1925–2006) Irish politician
The Flawed Chieftain http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/niall_stanage/2006/06/the_flawed_chieftain.html (The Guardian 'Comment is Free') <br class="br">In an interview with Hot Press magazine