You set circumstances to make me believe
Or think, that the moon is made of green cheese.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)
“The white moon is setting behind the white wave,
And Time is setting with me, O!”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Misquotation by W. B. Yeats of Burns's "Open the Door to me, Oh" http://www.robertburns.org/works/397.shtml (1793) in Ideas of good and evil (1907), p. 241; the original reads: "The wan Moon is setting beyond the white wave,/ And Time is setting with me, oh!" <br class="br">Misattributed
“Whatever my country and whatever my name
A gadget on the set makes me think the same.”
John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar
context (16) "Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere: Calypso (stanzas 2, 5, and 7) <!-- [Italics in source] -->
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Context: Watching their sets in a kind of trance
were people in Mexico, people in France.
They don't chase Jones but the dreams are the same —
Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that's the right name!
Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout,
A gadget on the set makes them look like you. When the Everywhere couple crack a joke
It's laughed at by all right-thinking folk.
When the Everywhere couple adopt a pose
It's the with-it view as everyone knows.
It may be a rumor or it may be true
But a gadget on the set has it said by you! "What do you think about Yatakang?"
"I think the same as the Everywhere gang."
"What do you think of Beninia then?"
"The Everywheres will tell me but I don't know when."
Whatever my country and whatever my name
A gadget on the set makes me think the same.
“This place makes me think about the mistakes I've made in the past… and I've made so many of them.”
Hatake Kakashi book Naruto
To Yugao, about Obito's name engraved in the Memorial Stone
“Do ye not think ye are making war on Hyrcanian tigers or facing angry Libyan lions?”
Nonne Hyrcanis bellare putatis
tigribus, aut saeuos Libyae contra ire leones?
Source: Thebaid, Book IX, Line 15 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
