“It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
III, l. 16-7.
Jacqueline (1814)
“It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Good-Night http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/complete-works-of-shelley/133/ (1819)
“It is better to crush a gland instead of an oak.”
André Gernez (1923–2014) French physician
Il vaut mieux écraser un gland plutôt qu'un chêne.
From La cinécellulaire: extrait des mises au point de la biologie, personal notes (2008)
“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Charles A. Reich (1928–2019) American lawyer
The Greening of America turns 40 (2010)
“It is still necessary to suppress the bourgeoisie and crush its resistance.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
(1917)
“Against a better will the will fights ill,…”
Dante Alighieri book Purgatorio
Canto XX, line 1 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio