
“4655. The Moon is made of green Cheese.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“4655. The Moon is made of green Cheese.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Thought the moon was made of green cheese.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 11.
Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 11, “Logic and Mathematics: Scientists Like It Clear and Precise” (p. 177)
“Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
“Butter, bread, and green cheese: whoever cannot say that is not a true Frisian.”
Quoted in: The Linguist: Journal of the Institute of Linguists. Volumes 42-43, The Institute, 2003. p. 192
According to legend, Pier forced his captives to repeat this shibboleth to distinguish Frisians from Dutch and Low Germans.
Interview with The Young Turks, October 26, 2010 https://chomsky.info/20101026/
Quotes 2010s, 2010