Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Let the world slide.”
Act V, scene 2. Compare William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, introduction, scene 1, line 5. Also Scene 2, line 146. ("Slip" in folio).
Wit Without Money (c. 1614; published 1639)
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English Jacobean playwright 1579–1625Related quotes
“No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.”
“For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.”
“If I thought about it, I never would have done it, I guess I would have let it slide.”
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)
“I'm gonna slide into those DMs harder than Chase Utley slides into second.”
As quoted on Twitter (10 August 2018) https://twitter.com/Alice_Moran/status/1027933019636736000
"Bright College Days"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)