Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 15
Source: Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 161
Algernon, Act II
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.”
Reagan reportedly displayed a plaque with this proverbial aphorism on his Oval Office desk (Michael Reagan, The New Reagan Revolution (2010), p. 177). Harry S. Truman is reported to have repeated versions of the aphorism on several occasions. This exact wording was in wide circulation in the 1960s, and the earliest known variant has been attributed to Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893).
Misattributed
you ask. "Well, I'll get more," he says. Just as at cricket, you get more runs. There's no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game. So all that great foul city of London there, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, — a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore, — you fancy it is a city of work? Not a street of it! It is a great city of play; very nasty play and very hard play, but still play.
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture I: Work, sections 23-24 (1866)
