
“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”
"Mr. Icky"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Lunatic. 6
पागल (The Lunatic)
Context: I see the blind man as the people's guide, the ascetic in his cave a deserter; those who act in the theater of lies I see as dark buffoons. Those who fail I find successful, and progress only backsliding. am I squint-eyed, Or just crazy? Friend, I'm crazy. Look at the withered tongues of shameless leaders, The dance of the whores At breaking the backbone on the people's rights. When the sparrow-headed newsprint spreads its black lies In a web of falsehood
“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”
"Mr. Icky"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”
Sand and Foam (1926)
“Break, break the walls between the peoples.”
Vivo de Zamenhof http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26359 (The life of Zamenhof), Biography by w:Edmond Privat, published in 1920
“Every toy has the right to break.”
Todo juguete tiene derecho a romperse.
Voces (1943)
“Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 149
Agri Quotes, 25 November 2013, Zeenews India http://zeenews.india.com/mahindrasamriddhi/agriawards/agri.html,
“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
This derives from a folk proverb sometimes attributed to Clementine Paddleford, but in use as an "old proverb" as early as 1908, when Paddeford was only 10 years old.
Misattributed
Source: Eat, Pray, Love