“In a quarrel for earth, turn not to earth.”
First Homily, as translated by John Burnaby (1955), p. 267
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)
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early Christian theologian and philosopher 354–430Related quotes
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) British politician
Letter to Richard Cobden (8 January 1862), quoted in Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (London: Constable, 1970), p. 590.
1860s
Context: It would be very delightful if your Utopia could be realized and if the nations of the earth would think of nothing but peace and commerce, and would give up quarrelling and fighting altogether. But unfortunately man is a fighting and quarrelling animal; and that this is human nature is proved by the fact that republics, where the masses govern are far more quarrelsome, and more addicted to fighting, than monarchies, which are governed by comparatively few persons.
“And I'm sorry for us
The dinosaurs roam the earth
The sky turns green”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
"Where I End and You Begin"
Lyrics, Hail to the Thief (2003)
“O pray the earth enfold
Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) English writer
A Last Word (1899).
“blossoming are people…
all the earth has turned to sky
…and i am you are i am we”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
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XAIPE (1950)
Avram Davidson book Masters of the Maze
Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 57)
Anacreon (-570–-485 BC) Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns
Variant: Fruitful earth drinks up the rain, Trees from earth drink that again; The sea too drinks the air, the sun Drinks the sea, and him the moon. Is it reason, then, do ye think, That I should thirst when all else drink?
Source: Odes, 21.
VII. 99–100 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)