Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 1277
Source: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
Source: Burn for Me
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 1277
Source: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
30,000 Pounds of Bananas
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)
Kenpachiro Satsuma (1947) Japanese actor
As quoted by David Milner, "Kenpachiro Satsuma Interview I" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/satsum.htm, Kaiju Conversations (December 1993)
Eder Jofre (1936) Brazilian boxer
Brophy, E. The Ring. Vol 74, No 1. May 1994, Page 28, Battle of the Legends.
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930) British politician
A 1924 entry in Evelyn Waugh's diary, cited in The Times 23 May 2006, Law supplement p.7
“A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Context: A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life.