“Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.”
Book 2, page 253.
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580)
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English diplomat 1554–1586Related quotes
“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
“Yes, he's a prick, but he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit!”
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
About Ty Cobb, a notoriously vicious player. Quoted in The Sporting News (12 July 1950); as actually published in The Sporting News, "prick" was replaced by "[censored]" — elsewhere, including Field of Screams: The Dark Underside of America's National Pastime (1994) the quote has appeared as "Ty Cobb is a prick." or sometimes "Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit."
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Bk I, Ch I
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)
Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“He can't even shoot straight.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
On his son Yakov’s suicide attempt, as quoted in Encyclopedia of Useless Information (2007) by William Harston
Contemporary witnesses
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
That much is my bow bent to shoot at these marks,
And kill fear, when the sky falls we shall have larks.
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
New Pathways in Science (1935) Ch. IV The End of the World, p. 62
