Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) British boxer and poet
Tiger and the Rose, 1971
“Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
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John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1961, Inaugural Address
Context: Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
“The greatest artists have never been men of taste.”
Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian
The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors Classic and Modern (1956)
Context: The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.
“The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Variant: The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker
"Trump sucking ding dong...better than WW3" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ye5A3tqGoY, The Alex Jones Show, April 14 2018. <br class="br">2018
“Never, ever retract. The smell of weakness is like blood to sharks.”
Pamela Geller (1958) blogger, author, political activist, and commentator
"Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzlQ7WrvfQ&t=0h20m41s, Sugar Land, Texas
“The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop over. G. Washington never slopt over.”
Artemus Ward (1834–1867) American writer
Fourth of July Oration.
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Ch. 3 http://books.google.com/books?id=HSRFAAAAYAAJ&q=%22It+is+the+nature+of+the+artist+to+mind+excessively+what+is+said+about+him+Literature+is+strewn+with+the+wreckage+of+men+who+have+minded+beyond+reason+the+opinions+of+others%22&pg=PA98#v=onepage <br class="br">A Room of One's Own (1929)
