“he threw up his hands
and wrote the Universe dont exist
and died to prove it”
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet
Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
“He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.”
Maxim 97
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
This quote was actually composed by Louis Nizer, and published in his book, Between You and Me (1948).
Misattributed
Variant: He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
“Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.”
John Maynard Keynes book The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VI, p. 238
“He had no right to take the law into his own hands.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron
Tarleton v. McGawley (1795), 2 Peake, N. P. Ca. 208
“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
As quoted in 1927 (2000) by Robert P. Fitton
Robert Bolt A Man for All Seasons
Sir Thomas More, Act II
A Man for All Seasons (1960)
