“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
On Nigel Benn, his bitter rival. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1010013,00.html#article_continue
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Hatshepsut (-1507–-1458 BC) Egyptian Pharaoh
Hor-watit signifies "the only Horus
Djeser-Djeseru inscriptions
Context: Hear ye, all persons! Ye people as many as ye are! I have done things according to the design of my heart. … I have restored that which was in ruins, I have raised up that which was unfinished since the Asiatics were in the midst of the Northland, and the barbarians were in the midst of them, overthrowing that which was made, while they ruled in ignorance of Re. He did not do according to the divine command until my majesty. When I was firm upon the throne of Re, I was ennobled until the two periods of years... I came as Hor-watit flaming against my enemies.
“Yes, that's how it is, child. He who works, he who is patient is the superior.”
Anton Chekhov book In the Ravine
Source: In the Ravine (1900), Ch. 5, pp. 208
Vanessa L. Williams (1963) American actress, singer and former Miss America
Vanessa Williams reflects on motherhood, struggle and stardom (May 9, 2012)
Hermann Göring (1893–1946) German politician and military leader
To Leon Goldensohn, after being asked if he felt any resentment toward Hitler (15 March 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
Charles Hamilton (writer) (1876–1961) English writer of school stories
Explaining why he used many different pseudonyms.
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Charles Hamilton" (pages 235-7)
Robert A. Heinlein book The Past Through Tomorrow
The Long Watch (p. 255)
The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet
MR1, 51; p. 197
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
“Similes, Parables and Fables” Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, § 394
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)