
“Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.”
Sämtliche Werken, ed. Josef Nadler (1949-1957), vol. III, p. 40.
“Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.”
Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.
Review of Indian Mosaic by Mark Channing, in The Listener (15 July 1936)
“Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.”
Vol. VIII, p. 47ff.
Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia, ed. Christian Frisch (1858)
Conversation on Epictetus and Montaigne
Context: These two states which it is necessary to know together in order to see the whole truth, being known separately, lead necessarily to one of these two vices, pride or indolence, in which all men are invariably led before grace, since if they do not remain in their disorders through laxity, they forsake them through vanity, so true is that which you have just repeated to me from St. Augustine, and which I find to a great extent; for in fact homage is rendered to them in many ways.
“Those whom nature has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”
Address by the President at a Luncheon Given in His Honor by President Lopez Matcos (29 June 1962) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=8741&st=&st1=<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project -->
1962
Context: While geography has made us neighbors, tradition has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies — in a vast Alianza para el Progreso. Those whom nature has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
““The peers just fill the air with their speeches.”
“And from what I've seen, vice versa.””
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 5 (p. 46)
“Too fucking busy, and vice versa.”
Response to an editor pressuring her for overdue work, as quoted in The Unimportance of Being Oscar (1968) by Oscar Levant, p. 89