Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Volume 3, Ch. 13
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
“The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.”
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Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 11 “Regarding Gravious” section X (p. 372).
“You can use a spear for a walking stick, but it will not change its nature.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Variant: He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
Source: The Song of Achilles
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Context: Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspect they differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.
“The man who was executed for gathering sticks”
John Tyndall (1820–1893) British scientist
New Fragments (1892)
Context: The Sabbath being regarded as a shadow or type of that heavenly repose which the righteous will enjoy when this world has passed away, 'so these six days of creation are so many periods or millenniums for which the world and the toils and labours of our present state are destined to endure.' The Mosaic account was thus reduced to a poetic myth... But if this symbolic interpretation, which is now generally accepted, be the true one, what becomes of the Sabbath day? It is absolutely without ecclesiastical meaning. The man who was executed for gathering sticks on that day must therefore be regarded as the victim of a rude legal rendering of a religious epic.<!--pp. 30-31
“Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.”
Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller
Source: The Storyteller
“Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
“The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)