Constance Marie (1965) actress
"Q&A with Constance Marie", ABC Spark (11 September 2012) http://www.abcspark.ca/shows/switched-birth/articles/qa-constance-marie.
“I shall be but a shrimp of an author.”
Letter to Horace Walpole http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=tgal0527 (February 25, 1768)
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John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
On being questioned about having a meal with Jessica Simpson in November 2006 <br class="br">2006). "John Mayer Speaks About Eating With Jessica" http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah2793.shtml AccessHollywood.com (accessed January 11, 2007
“Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish.”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 76.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
“I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.”
Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque ut pecuniam accepero, Graecos primum autores, deinde vestes emam.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian
Letter to Jacob Batt (12 April 1500); Collected Works of Erasmus Vol 1 (1974)
Variant translation: When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
“A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.”
Philip Sidney book The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Book 3, page 485.
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580)
David Dixon Porter (1813–1891) United States Navy admiral
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), pp. 202– 203
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
Context: Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy — on experience, the mistress of their Masters. They go about puffed up and pompous, dressed and decorated with [the fruits], not of their own labours, but of those of others. And they will not allow me my own. They will scorn me as an inventor; but how much more might they — who are not inventors but vaunters and declaimers of the works of others — be blamed.
