Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
General sources
Sheridaniana, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas.
Berkey v. Third Avenue Railway, 244 N.Y. 84, 94, 155 N.E. 58, 61 (N.Y. 1926). Sometimes misquoted as referring to "figures of speech" rather than metaphors, or with other minor variations.
Judicial opinions
Context: The whole problem of the relation between parent and subsidiary corporations is one that is still enveloped in the mists of metaphor. Metaphors in law are to be narrowly watched, for starting as devices to liberate thought, they end often by enslaving it. We say at times that the corporate entity will be ignored when the parent corporation operates a business through a subsidiary which is characterized as an 'alias' or a 'dummy.'... Dominion may be so complete, interference so obtrusive, that by the general rules of agency the parent will be a principal and the subsidiary an agent.
“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Facts don't care about your feelings.”
Twitter https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/695638866993115136, ; , quoted in * 2018-07-13 These facts don’t care about Ben Shapiro’s feelings Frank Dale ThinkProgress
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/ben-shapiro-facts-dont-care-about-feelings-daily-wire-trump-conservative-hypocrisy-99ecd0a7940d/ 2020-03-12
2016
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
“As a matter of fact the rich man now cares but little for servants.”
"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.
Context: If the rich man regarded the sermon as a means of grace, as a kind of rope thrown by the minister to a man just above the falls; if he regarded it as a lifeboat, or as a lighthouse, he would not allow his coachman to remain outside. If he really believed that the coachman had an immortal soul, capable of eternal joy, liable to everlasting pain, he would do his utmost to make the calling and election of the said coachman sure. As a matter of fact the rich man now cares but little for servants. They are not included in the scheme of salvation, except as a kind of job lot. The church has become a club. It is a social affair, and the rich do not care to associate in the week days with the poor they may happen to meet at church. As they expect to be in heaven together forever, they can afford to be separated here. There will certainly be time enough there to get acquainted.
“We must trust to nothing but facts”
Source: Elements of Chemistry (1790), pp. xviii
Context: We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
Speech http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199192/cmhansrd/1992-02-28/Debate-1.html in the House of Commons (28 February 1992)
1990s
