“I am the black crow king,
Keeper of the forgotten corn,
The King!”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Black Crow King
“The king is gone
But he's not forgotten.
This is the story
Of a Johnny Rotten
It's better to burn out
Than it is to rust.
The king is gone
But he's not forgotten.”
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
Song lyrics, Rust Never Sleeps (1978)
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"The God and His Man", Asimov's Science Fiction, 1980, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
“It is better to work out than rust out.”
Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya (1860–1962) Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore
Even at the age of 102 he said this as quoted in [Our Leaders, http://books.google.com/books?id=YwTh-vjSFXUC&pg=PA51, 1989, Children's Book Trust, 978-81-7011-701-8, 63]
“But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
- Edward II, 5.1”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
But is there less in the people of rank who live in so strange a forgetfulness of their natural condition?
Discourses on the Condition of the Great
“To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.”
William Beebe (1877–1962) American ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, and explorer
Journal (31 December 1893)
Horace Smith (1779–1849) English poet and novelist
On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below (published February 1, 1818); written in a competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley, for which Shelley wrote "Ozymandius".
Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) 1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
Statement to a TImes reporter in 1990, as quoted in "The wit and wisdom of Boris" in Guardian Unlimited (23 April 2007)
1990s