“Yea, Custance, better (they say) a bad excuse than none.”

E. Payne, trans., vol. 2, p. 230
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

Source: Thud!

Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.128

Source: Lover Awakened

Source: A Walk in the Woods (1997), Chapter 8 (p. 106)

The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests (1688)
Context: It was to little purpose to excuse the matter, by saying, that the badness of the Verses was a kind of Testimony that they were made by a God, who nobly scorn'd to be tyed up to rules and to be confined to the Beauty of a Style. For this made no impression upon the Philosophers; who, to turn this answer into ridicule, compared it to the Story of a Painter, who being hired to draw the Picture of a Horse tumbling on his Back upon the ground, drew one running full speed: and when he was told, that this was not such a Picture as was bespoke, he turned it upside down, and then ask'd if the Horse did not tumble upon his back now. Thus these Philosophers jeered such Persons, who by a way of arguing that would serve both ways, could equally prove that the Verses were made by a God, whether they were good or bad.<!--pp. 219-220

Source: Tell-All

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)