
“The dead won't bother you, it's the living you got to to worry about”
Robert Ressler interview (1992), seen in John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUi-m3Ugo-g
As quoted in Good Advice (1993), edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 215
“The dead won't bother you, it's the living you got to to worry about”
Robert Ressler interview (1992), seen in John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUi-m3Ugo-g
“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”
“Beware the man of a single book.”
Hominem unius libri timeo. / Timeo hominem unius libri.
As quoted by Leonard Sweet, The Greatest Story Never Told http://books.google.gr/books?id=KuTRcjWL91AC&dq=, section: "The Gift of Lyrics", Abingdon Press, 2012
Variant: "Beware the man of one book."
See also: Homo unius libri
Disputed
Variant: I fear the man of a single book.
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
Pt. I, line 999–1005. Compare Publius Syrus, Maxim 289, "Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia" ("An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger").
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Variant: Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
Context: Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin’d:
Why am I forc’d, like Heav’n, against my mind,
To make Examples of another Kind?
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
“Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)