"Jesus" on Queen (1973).
“Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33. Note: "Time ripens all things" is the translator's interpolation and does not appear in the original Spanish text.
Glen Cook book Shadows Linger
Source: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 1, “Juniper” (p. 223; opening words)
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895) British hymn-writer and poet
Hymn: All things bright and beautiful http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/a/l/allthing.htm
“He's following a star, the same one that the three men followed east.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Man of Peace
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 318)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
Context: So it is that the laws most binding us as a people are laws of the spirit—proclaimed in church and synagogue and mosque. These are the laws that truly declare the eternal equality of all men, of all races, before the man-made laws of our land. And we are profoundly aware that—in the world—we can claim the trust of hundreds of millions of people, across Africa and Asia—only as we ourselves hold high the banner of justice for all.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Marriage and Single Life
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Context: The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
