Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IX, Chapter I, Sec. 5
“What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.”
Reader’s Digest (September 1980).
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G. K. Chesterton book Tremendous Trifles
Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909), Ch. XXXI: "The Riddle of the Ivy"
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
The Crisis No. VII
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
“The white moon is setting behind the white wave,
And Time is setting with me, O!”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Misquotation by W. B. Yeats of Burns's "Open the Door to me, Oh" http://www.robertburns.org/works/397.shtml (1793) in Ideas of good and evil (1907), p. 241; the original reads: "The wan Moon is setting beyond the white wave,/ And Time is setting with me, oh!" <br class="br">Misattributed
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) American journalist
And so we did it. We came. We saw. Then we retreated. How could we? <br class="br">Column, July 17, 2009, "The Moon We Left Behind" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer071709.php3#.U34lesJOWUk at washingtonpost.com, July 17, 2009. <br class="br">2000s, 2009
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
The Crisis No. IV.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
“The yellow moon turned orange and was soon red as the setting sun.”
Joseph Heller book Catch-22
Source: Catch-22 (1961), pp. 462