“The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Oxford and Cambridge
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“Men have periods, too… they just don´t bleed.”
Tori Amos[citation needed]
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“First name Mr, middle name 'period', last name T!”
Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler
Silver Spoons (1982)
“Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
credited to Lowell Stone, M.D., born 2144; chapter 15, p. 185
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
“My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.”
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
Letter to his wife on Christmas Day, two weeks after the Battle of Fredericksburg (25 December 1862).
1860s
Context: What a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world! I pray that, on this day when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace. … My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 46, “Why’s, After the Event” (p. 143)
Stephen Harper (1959) 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
Otto Weininger book Sex and Character
Denn gerade die starke Periodizität des Genies bringt es mit sich, daß bei ihm immer erst auf sterile Jahre die fruchtbaren und auf sehr produktive Zeiten immer wieder sehr unfruchtbare folgen—Zeiten, in denen er von sich nichts hält, ja von sich psychologisch (nicht logisch) weniger hält als von jedem anderen Menschen: quält ihn doch die Erinnerung an die Schaffensperiode, und vor allem—wie frei sieht er sie, die von solchen Erinnerungen nicht Belästigten, herumgehen! Wie seine Ekstasen gewaltiger sind als die der anderen, so sind auch seine Depressionen fürchterlicher.
Source: Sex and Character (1903), p. 107.
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1960s, Understanding Media (1964)