[ Link to tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/205052027259195393] <br class="br">Tweets by year, 2012
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Likely spurious quote, UNVERIFIED ATTRIBUTE - Quoted in The Lexington Observer & Reporter (16 June 1864)
1860s
Variant: I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
“.. the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Variant: We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
Source: Life of Pi
Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Stobaeus, iii. 4. 83
Quoted by Stobaeus
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
From the introduction to the published script.
A Zed and Two Noughts
Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) American singer-songwriter and musician
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler).
Song lyrics, What's Going On (1971)
“Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”
Terry Goodkind book Stone of Tears
Source: Stone of Tears
