“Beware not to use the future as an excuse to ignore living in the present.”
As quoted in Serious Wonder (22 June 2015). "A conversation on cyborgism" http://www.seriouswonder.com/a-conversation-on-cyborgism-interview-with-u-k-cyborg-neil-harbisson/
Novel, Raffles of the MCC (1979)
“Beware not to use the future as an excuse to ignore living in the present.”
As quoted in Serious Wonder (22 June 2015). "A conversation on cyborgism" http://www.seriouswonder.com/a-conversation-on-cyborgism-interview-with-u-k-cyborg-neil-harbisson/
Source: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), P. 61
Context: There is, of course, no complete solution. […] But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education […] There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
“You are a fool, sir priest. Ignorance may excuse you. It will certainly kill you.”
Source: Ars Magica (1989), Chapter 2 (p. 18)
Law.
Table Talk (1689)
“If one-day cricket was pyjama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.”
On Twenty20 cricket, in "If one-dayer is pyjama cricket, Twenty20 is underwear cricket" in Daily News and Analysis (17 July 2006) http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report-if-one-dayer-is-pyjama-cricket-twenty20-is-underwear-cricket-1042298.
“Cricket can be a bridge and a glue… Cricket for peace is my mission.”
Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992)
Source: Dictionary of Quotations, Chambers: Edinburgh, U.K, 2005, p. 937
“Smut is a target for reconstructed cricketing accidents -- he is the Cricket Saint Sebastian.”
Fear of Drowning By Numbers