Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar book A Ramble Round the Globe
A Ramble Round the Globe, Ch. I, pub. Chatto and Windus, London (1894)
Last words, as reported in Dictionary of Basic Tesuji by Fujisawa Shuko, trans. Steven Bretherick (Slate & Shell, 2007), Vol. IV, p. 23
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar book A Ramble Round the Globe
A Ramble Round the Globe, Ch. I, pub. Chatto and Windus, London (1894)
“When I try, I fail.
When I trust,
He succeeds.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Pierre Bouvier (1979) Canadian musician
Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/pierre-bouvier-of-simple-plan (February 6, 2020)
“Only the dead can be forgiven;
But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.”
W.B. Yeats book The Winding Stair and Other Poems
I, st. 4 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), A Dialogue of Self and Soul http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1397/ <br class="br">Context: My Soul. Such fullness in that quarter overflows<br>And falls into the basin of the mind<br>That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind,<br>For intellect no longer knows<br>Is from the Ought, or knower from the Known —<br>That is to say, ascends to Heaven;<br>Only the dead can be forgiven;<br>But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
As quoted in Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor (1997) by Janet C. Lowe, pp. 165-166
Context: I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It is like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don't do that though. I don't use very many of those claim checks. There's nothing material I want very much. And I'm going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die.
Anish Kapoor (1954) British contemporary artist of Indian birth
[Grant, Jennifer, MOMumental: Adventures in the Messy Art of Raising a Family, http://books.google.com/books?id=8Iu1QtZR_X8C&pg=PT184, 1 May 2012, Worthy Publishing, 978-1-61795-099-5, 184–]