Small chatter with George W. Bush in the Oval Office
Newsweek magazine
2000s
The Serenade http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page189, St. 14
Source: Dance with the Devil
“Puppy presents on the rug. This sucked.”
Source: Once Dead, Twice Shy
[Drabold, Will, Read Cory Booker's Speech at the Democratic Convention, http://time.com/4421756/democratic-convention-cory-booker-transcript-speech/, 21 August 2018, Time, July 26, 2016]
2016
“Madonna: "Is that a rug?" (referring to David Letterman's hair).”
On The Late Show with David Letterman (1994)
“Here Skugg lies snug
As a bug in a rug.”
Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley (September, 1772); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Epistles
“Jack: These last 2 miles were rugged, weren't they?”
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
“But to reach…the pinnacle of power, it will be necessary, to climb rugged heights.”
1821
“If you own a rug you own too much.”
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
Widely misattributed to Emerson on the Internet, this quote is actually taken from Alfred North Whitehead's essay "Harvard: The Future" (The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936.)
Misattributed
