“It will yet be the proud boast of woman that she never contributed a line to the Bible.”
George William Foote (1850–1915) British secularist and journal editor
As quoted in The Bible (1901) by John Remsburg, p. 409
“[re a woman on TV on 'Wheel of Fortune'] She makes you proud to be a two-legged mammal.”
— John Updike, book Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor
Source: As quoted in The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book II, by Francis Bacon
“Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
On His Own Character http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=skoc (1761)
“You can either watch TV or you can make TV.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Underground Online, interview by Michael Patrick Sullivan
“The wheel of Fortune tourneth as a ball;
Sodeyn clymbyng axeth a sodeyn fall.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) monk and poet
Bk. 9, line 1211.
The Fall of Princes