“You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.”
Speech of Adlai Stevenson, Los Angeles (1956), written by Galbraith
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Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 596.
“A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
Saxum volutum non obducitur musco
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 524
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
“They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform... The world moves.”
Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) American suffragist
The Woman Who Ran for President — in 1872 https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/woodhull. The Attic. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
“The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“4057. Rolling Stones gather no Moss.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)