
“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”
Book IV, Ch. 6
Joseph Andrews (1742)
Source: I Lived to Tell It All (1996, ebook 2014), Page 205.
“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”
Book IV, Ch. 6
Joseph Andrews (1742)
Iconcrash: Enochian Devices Blog, 2007-12-14 http://www.eurobands.us/2007/04/06/iconcrash-506,
“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. ”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 6 : How Gargantua was born in a strange manner.
Context: As soon as he was born, he cried not as other babes use to do, Miez, miez, miez, miez, but with a high, sturdy, and big voice shouted about, Some drink, some drink, some drink, as inviting all the world to drink with him. The noise hereof was so extremely great, that it was heard in both the countries at once of Beauce and Bibarois. I doubt me, that you do not thoroughly believe the truth of this strange nativity. Though you believe it not, I care not much: but an honest man, and of good judgment, believeth still what is told him, and that which he finds written.
“I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.”
"Bad Liver and a Broken Heart", Small Change (1976).
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VII, Chapter III, Sec. 17
The Honolulu Advertiser (20 June 1959) https://www.newspapers.com/image/259239643/?terms=Pogo, cited in "Pogo on intelligent life in the universe" by Garson O'Toole, in Archive of the American Dialect Society listserver (16 February 2017) http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2017-February/146520.html, and in 'Pogo Comic on Extraterrestrials: Either Way, It’s a Mighty Soberin’ Thought", The Quote Investigator (18 February 2017) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/18/space/. This has often been paraphrased as: "Thar’s only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we’re the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it’s a mighty sobering thought."
Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1975), Porky Pine
“Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.”
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life