“A man who has never looked on Niagra has but a faint idea of a cataract; and he who has not read Barère's Memoirs may be said not to know what it is to lie.”
On Mémoires de Bertrand Barère (1844)
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British historian and Whig politician 1800–1859Related quotes
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
Quoted in the "Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions and Occasional Reflections" of Sir John Hawkins (1787-1789) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 6, edited by George Birkbeck Hill
Source: Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
“He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.”
Attributed without citation in Young, David. Breakthrough Power for Golfers: A Daily Guide to an Extraordinary Life, Wind Runner Press, 2011. p. 189.
As quoted in Art of Communicating Ideas (1952) by William Joseph Grace, p. 389
Disputed
Herbert N. Casson in: Forbes (1948). p. 42
1920s-1940s
Source: The Armor of God (1943), Ch. 1, p. 4
“The man is always the last to know when
Cupid has struck him
-Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress”
Source: One Night with a Prince
Então Jesus voltou lentamente o rosto para ela e disse. Não conheço mulher. Maria segurou-lhe as mãos, Assim temos de começar todos, homens que não conheciam mulher, mulheres que não conheciam homem, um dia o que sabia ensinou, o que não sabia aprendeu.
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 235
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter V