
„Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.“
— Ambrose Bierce, book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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— Ambrose Bierce, book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
— André Breton French writer 1896 - 1966
— Jim Carrey Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer 1962
— Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indian freedom fighter who forged united India 1875 - 1950
Patel complaining about the Indian Muslims' silence over Kashmir in a speech in Lucknow in 1948, quoted in B.D. Graham: Hindu Nationalism and quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p.349
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791
As spoken to Michael Kelly, from Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, including a period of nearly half a century; with Original Anecdotes of many distinguished Personnages, Political, Literary, and Musical (London, Henry Colburn, 1826; digitized 2006), 2nd ed., vol. I (p. 225) http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00439352&id=ph3XEMzGt5YC&pg=RA2-PA225&lpg=RA2-PA225&dq=%22Melody+is+the+essence+of+music%22&hl=en
— Georg Trakl austrian poet 1887 - 1914
"Towards Evening My Heart," Poems (1913)
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/29/wild-heart-turning-white-georg-trakl-and-cocaine/
— Little Raven (Arapaho leader) Southern Arapaho chief 1810 - 1889
At the signing of the Little Arkansas Treaty (October 1865), as quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), p. 100
— Louis Armstrong American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer 1901 - 1971
Variant: All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Lotfi A. Zadeh Electrical engineer and computer scientist 1921 - 2017
Source: 1960s, Fuzzy sets (1965), p. 338
— Arthur Conan Doyle Scottish physician and author 1859 - 1930
— Xenophanes Presocratic philosopher -570 - -475 BC
Fragment 15 (D-K)
Original: (el) ἀλλ᾽ εἰ χεῖρας ἔχον βόες <ἵπποι τ᾽> ἠὲ λέοντες
ἢ γράψαι χείρεσσι καὶ ἔργα τελεῖν ἅπερ ἄνδρες,
ἵπποι μέν θ᾽ ἵπποισι βόες δέ τε βουσὶν ὁμοίας
καί <κε> θεῶν ἰδέας ἔγραφον καὶ σώματ᾽ ἐποίουν
τοιαῦθ᾽ οἷόν περ καὐτοὶ δέμας εἶχον <ἕκαστοι>.
Book 8, Ch. 98
variant: Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. (Book 8, Ch. 98)
Paraphrase: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" ”
Appears carved over entrance to Central Post Office building in New York City.
The Histories
— Isidore of Seville, book Etymologiae
Bk. 11, ch. 4, sect. 3; p. 221.
Etymologiae
Original: (la) Siquidem et per naturam pleraque mutationem recipiunt, et corrupta in diversas species transformantur; sicut de vitulorum carnibus putridis apes, sicut de equis scarabei, de mulis locustae, de cancris scorpiones.
— Wassily Kandinsky Russian painter 1866 - 1944
Source: 1916 -1920, Autobiography', 1918, p. 31
— P. C. Cast, book Divine By Mistake
Source: Divine By Mistake
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
— Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd poet
Karafy gaer wennglaer o du gwennylan;
myn yd gar gwyldec gweled gwylan
yd garwny uyned, kenym cared yn rwy.
Ry eitun ouwy y ar veingann
y edrtch uy chwaer chwerthin egwan,
y adrawt caru, can doeth yn rann.
"Awdl V" (Ode 5), line 1; translation from Gwyn Williams (trans.) Welsh Poems, 6th Century to 1600 (London: Faber & Faber, 1973) p. 43.
Original: (cy) Karafy gaer wennglaer o du gwennylan;<br/>myn yd gar gwyldec gweled gwylan<br/>yd garwny uyned, kenym cared yn rwy.<br/>Ry eitun ouwy y ar veingann<br/>y edrtch uy chwaer chwerthin egwan,<br/>y adrawt caru, can doeth yn rann.
— Thomas Gainsborough English portrait and landscape painter 1727 - 1788
Quote from Gainsborough's letter to his friend William Jackson of Exeter, from Bath 23 Aug. 1767; as cited in Thomas Gainsborough, by William T, Whitley https://ia800204.us.archive.org/6/items/thomasgainsborou00whitrich/thomasgainsborou00whitrich.pdf; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons – London, Smith, Elder & Co, Sept. 1915, p. 379 (Appendix A - Letter I)
1755 - 1769