Book VII, sec. 77.
Naturalis Historia
“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”
Act II, scene 2. Compare Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, Act I, scene 3. Pliny, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter XVII. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”
A Mad World, my Masters (1605), Compare: "From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, 1 he is all mirth", William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii. Sc. 2.
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
“In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.”
Nun gilt für die kürzeste Verbindung zwischen zwei Personen die Gerade, so als ob sie Punkte wären.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)
Interview by Adam Holdorf for Real Change News, (18 March 2004).
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.”
As quoted in The Federalist https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101037492095;seq=202;skin=mobile (Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818), p. 194, James Madison, Federalist #37.
1770s
“From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.”
"The Day of the People," The Class Struggle Vol. III No. 1 (February 1919) http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1919/daypeople.htm
