Iolo Goch (1320–1398) Welsh bard
Ni rydd farn eithr ar arnawdd,
Ni châr yn ei gyfar gawdd.
Ni ddeily rhyfel, ni ddilyn,
Ni threisia am ei dda ddyn.
Ni bydd ry gadarn arnam,
Ni yrr hawl gymedrawl gam.
Source: Y Llafurwr (The Labourer), Line 17.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
Iolo Goch (1320–1398) Welsh bard
Ni rydd farn eithr ar arnawdd,
Ni châr yn ei gyfar gawdd.
Ni ddeily rhyfel, ni ddilyn,
Ni threisia am ei dda ddyn.
Ni bydd ry gadarn arnam,
Ni yrr hawl gymedrawl gam.
Source: Y Llafurwr (The Labourer), Line 17.
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
#684 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Joseph Heller book Catch-22
Source: Catch-22 (1961)
Context: Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"The Uncreating Chaos"
The Still Centre (1939)
“Jupiter, what spoils of war will our gift make yours!”
Juppiter, o quanta belli donabere praeda!
Source: Thebaid, Book IV, Line 769