
“The moone is made of a greene cheese.”
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Goodnight Moon
“The moone is made of a greene cheese.”
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“4655. The Moon is made of green Cheese.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Thought the moon was made of green cheese.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 11.
Quote in Macke's letter to philosopher de:Eberhard Grisebach, March 1913; as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 145
“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
War in Heaven (1930), Ch. 1, first sentence
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)