Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
Variant: From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.
Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 124-125]
Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
Variant: From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.
Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
LXXX, Of Life and Death, lines 1-8
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams
“There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”
Bob Dylan book Chronicles: Volume One
Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1
“Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.”
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Lucky Chance, Act IV (1686).
John Austin (legal philosopher) (1790–1859) legal philosopher
Variant:
The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another. Whether it be or be not is one enquiry; whether it be or be not conformable to an assumed standard, is a different enquiry. A law, which actually exists, is a law, though we happen to dislike it, or though it vary from the text, by which we regulate our approbation and disapprobation.
John Austin, Austin Lectures on Jurisprudence; or The Philosophy of Positive Law, 1873, Lecture V
Source: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), p. 278
Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 29.
Context: With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.
Ashoka (-304–-232 BC) Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty
And further, one should think: "This leads to happiness in this world and the next."
Edicts of Ashoka (c. 257 BC)
