“there are more things
twixt the vermiform appendix
and nirvana than are dreamt of
in thy philosophy horatio”
the robin and the worm
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American writer 1878–1937Related quotes
Response to being quoted William Shakespeare's statement from Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth… than are dreamt of in your philosophy." As quoted in When God is Gone Everything Is Holy: The Making Of A Religious Naturalist (2008) by Chet Raymo
1980s and later
Ch. 22 http://www.resologist.net/talent22.htm; sometimes paraphrased "I can conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is anything more than the proper thing to wear, for a while."
Wild Talents (1932)
Referring to his rival Raymond Poincaré, as quoted in Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World (2003) by Margaret MacMillan, p. 33
“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 6. Immoderate Exercise a cause, and how. Solitariness, Idleness.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.”
Source: 1930s-1951, The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 45
“One thing I did before Nirvana became popular was I stopped doing drugs.”
“A man's life is an appendix to his heart.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 315.
