Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
The Corruptions Of the Physical Body, p. 5
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
The Corruptions Of the Physical Body, p. 5
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
Robert Morley (1908–1992) English actor
Explaining why he never tried to lose weight. <br class="br"> Toledo Blade, Aug 20, 1978 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19780820&id=UDBPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fgIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6371,746427
“Sometimes you die sometimes you don’t.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“The largest army will founder if its men are less willing to die than to win.”
David Gemmell book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 9
Context: How do you decide a battle is lost? Numbers, strategic advantage, positioning? It's all worth a sparrow's fart. It comes down to men who are willing. The largest army will founder if its men are less willing to die than to win.
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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1910s, Prejudices, First Series (1919)
“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”
John Kenneth Galbraith book The Affluent Society
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 9, Section II, p. 103
“Women are much more honourable than men.”
Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist
quoting April Ashley
"Complete Hero" (2009)
“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
“Thomas: Sometimes it's a good day to die, and sometimes it's a good day to have breakfast.”
Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker
Smoke Signals (1998)
“It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.”
Henry Fielding book The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Source: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling