“If the heat doesn’t kill you,” he mused, “the flies surely will.”
Stephen R. Lawhead (1950) American writer
Source: The Skin Map (2010), p. 223
On Busch Memorial Stadium, site of the 1966 MLB All-Star Game; as quoted in "Frank Doesn't Miss NL Pitching" by Neal Russo, in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 13, 1966), p. 4C
“If the heat doesn’t kill you,” he mused, “the flies surely will.”
Stephen R. Lawhead (1950) American writer
Source: The Skin Map (2010), p. 223
“Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923) British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor
Voltaire http://books.google.com/books?id=bGFBAAAAYAAJ&q="Where+it+is+a+duty+to+worship+the+sun+it+is+pretty+sure+to+be+a+crime+to+examine+the+laws+of+heat"&pg=PA14#v=onepage (1871).
“If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
This saying was popularized by Truman after he publicly used it in 1952. It was soon credited to his aide Harry H. Vaughan in TIME (28 April 1952) but apparently originated with a Missouri colleague of Truman, Eugene "Buck" Purcell, according to The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, And When (2006) by Ralph Keyes. Truman himself later made reference to his popularization of the remark in his book Mr. Citizen (1960), p. 229:
: There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives of tens of millions of people around the world, but that does not mean that they should take longer to make. Some men can make decisions and some cannot. Some men fret and delay under criticism. I used to have a saying that applies here, and I note that some people have picked it up, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Misattributed
“I don't share my body heat indiscriminately.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Devil in Winter
“How Doom hold heat, and preach non-violence? Shhh, he 'bout to start the speech, c'mon, silence!”
MF Doom (1971) hip hop artist from America
As Madvillain, "Raid", Madvillainy (2004)
Sourced Lines
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian
Do You Believe in Gosh?
“It ain't the heat, it's the humility.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Joe Satriani (1956) American guitar player
On the decision to sing vocals himself for Flying In A Blue Dream , as quoted in Guitar Magazine (March 1990).