Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Our Century's Decline"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)
Part I, section x, stanza 5
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Our Century's Decline"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)
“Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.”
Munir Butt (1940–2015) British diplomat
Source: On answering the question "Why can't the Kashmir question be resolved?" Yale Daily News, Review of Guest Speaker Dr Munir Butt, 1994
Iolo Goch (1320–1398) Welsh bard
Gorau Cymro tro trylew
Biau'r wlad, lin Bywer Lew,
Gŵr meingryf, gorau mangre,
A phiau'r llys; hoff yw'r lle.
"Llys Owain Glyndŵr yn Sycharth" (Owain Glyndŵr's Court at Sycharth), line 91; translation from Carl Lofmark Bards and Heroes (Felinfach: Llanerch, 1989) p. 100.
Raghuram G. Rajan (1963) Indian economist
We are a little bit that way. <br class="br">On India's performance amid the 2015 world economy slow down, as quoted in " India 'one-eyed' king in land of blind, says Rajan http://www.business-standard.com/article/finance/india-one-eyed-king-in-land-of-blind-says-rajan-116041600663_1.html", Business Standard (16 April 2016)
“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
In terra di ciechi chi vi ha un occhio è signore.
Act III, scene ix
The Mandrake (1524)
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
“A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet.”
Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 38 (Chinese saying)
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”
Joan D. Vinge (1948) American writer