
“In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.”
"Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold," North American Review (July 1865).
Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay, 1880
“In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.”
"Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold," North American Review (July 1865).
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business Commencement Address (2013)
"Preface, 4th Five Year Plan" http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/4th/4ppre.htm, Government of India Planning Commission (July 18, 1970).
“I have not skill
From such a sharp and waspish word as "No"
To pluck the sting.”
Act I, sc. 1.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
“The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings.
Grasp it firmly, it stings not.”
Part iii, canto ii. Quoted by Walt Whitman in Roaming in Thought.
Lucile (1860)
Letter to John Taylor (26 November 1798), shortened in The Money Masters to "I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution … taking from the federal government their power of borrowing".
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Quoted in Khrushchev Remembers (1970), p. 474
"Bullet The Blue Sky"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
Context: From the stinging rain comes a Rattle and hum. See the face of fear running scared in the valley below