“Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.”
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) English writer and social critic and a Journalist
“Leave no stone unturned.”
Heraclidæ (c 428 BC)
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Anwar Sadat (1918–1981) Egyptian president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
[Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Anwar, Sadat, Nobel Prize Ceremony, Stockholm, December 10, 1978, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1978/al-sadat/lecture/, October 9, 2018]
Mitsumasa Yonai (1880–1948) Prime Minister of Japan
alternate version: History shows that, whenever an emergency arises, our national spirit is manifested most emphatically to advance the prestige and bring about the prosperity of the nation. Nor must we be negligent in any way in promoting a loyal and heroic spirit among the home-front population so that national strength may be augmented and given full play. For this purpose, such measures as the fostering of the spirit of piety and of honouring ancestors, the renovation of national education and the improvement of the people's physical strength.
Quoted in Nihon Gaiji Kyokai, Tokyo Gazette, p. 343. Also quoted in Daniel Clarence Holtom, Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism (1963), p. 19.
“5196. To leave no Stone unturn'd.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“A rolling stone, that gathers no moss, but leaves a trail of busted stuff.”
Dave Matthews (1967) American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
Busted Stuff
Busted Stuff (2002)
“Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
“FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Pericles (-494–-429 BC) Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens
As quoted in Flicker to Flame : Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness (2006) by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, p. 118
This quotation is likely a modern paraphrasing of a longer passage from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, II.43.3.