“You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.”
Lini
(15 September 1992)
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Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926) American politician
Maxim quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement, reported in The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland (March 4, 1923); Congressional Record (March 4, 1923), vol. 64, p. 5714.
Ryan North (1980) Canadian webcomic writer and programmer
Comment on LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/qwantz/41260.html?thread=1300012#t1300012
“A man could get used to anything if he had to.”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) American fiction writer
Source: I Am Legend and Other Stories
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician
Conversation with Jean Martet (18 December 1927), Ch. 11, p. 167.
Clemenceau, The Events of His Life (1930)
Context: A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
“And if you became man, what else could you become?”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Y si llegaras a hombre, ¿a qué más podrías llegar?
Voces (1943)
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
"Sadie Thompson" in Altogether - Rain (1934)
