Source: Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
“They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1673) English minister
Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649). Compare: "There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God, Than from theyr children to spare the rod." John Skelton, Magnyfycence, line 1954.
“4238. Spare the Rod, and spoil the Child.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Sandman Slim
“Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 843
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“One stroke of his almighty rod
Shall send young sinners quick to hell.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 13: "The Danger of Delay".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
The Pit of Hell!: Unbelievable Satanic Deception Flooding the Earth! (1983)
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) Peintre Néerlandais
Quote of Mondrian in a letter to Van Doesburg, 4 Dec. 1927; as cited in De Stijl 1917-1931 - The Dutch Contribution to Modern Art, by H.L.C. Jaffé http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/jaff001stij01_01/jaff001stij01_01.pdf; J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam 1956, p. 27 <br class="br">Mondrian's answer to Theo van Doesburg's retrospective article in 'De Stijl' magazine in 1929, where he wrote: 'By the lively and most articulate evolution the principles, developed mainly by P. Mondriaan in 'De Stijl' could not any longer be considered as generally characteristic of the opinion of the group.' <br class="br">1920's
