
" Peace http://www.bartleby.com/122/22.html", lines 3-6
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 151.
" Peace http://www.bartleby.com/122/22.html", lines 3-6
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
Quoted in Henry More: The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Plattonist (1962) by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, page 100.
Though renditions by Ray Charles are among the most popular and famous, the lyrics of "Georgia On My Mind" (1930) were written by Stuart Gorrell and the music by Hoagy Carmichael.
Misattributed
Maiden speech, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, February 11, 1936.
“Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
Variant: Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!
Source: P.S. I Love You
Addressing facutly and guests at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), as part of a program by the National Resource Center for Value Education. New Delhi. (November 7, 2004)
2000s
Second Dialogue; translated by Judith R. Bush, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters
Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques (published 1782)