“The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.”
Source: The Known World
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Edward P. Jones3
Novelist, short story writer 1951Related quotes
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) Egyptian writer
Cited in: Michael J. Gelb (1996) Thinking for a change: discovering the power to create, communicate and lead. p. 96
“You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise.”
qualis quisque sit scies, si quemadmodum laudet, quemadmodum laudetur aspexeris.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LII: On choosing our teachers, Line 12.
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Source: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Volumes 1-4, Diary (1755-1804) and Autobiography
Susan Mallery (1950) American author
Source: Almost Perfect
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
Simon Sinek (1973) British/American author and motivational speaker
Source: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 2, Of the Force of Imagination.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Billy Ray Cyrus (1961) American singer-songwriter, actor and film producer
Achy Breaky Heart
Song lyrics, Some Gave All (1992)