Did Tsar Nicholas II write “1916 was cursed, 1917 will surely be better”? https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/36644/did-tsar-nicholas-ii-write-1916-was-cursed-1917-will-surely-be-better
Misattributed
The New York Times, "A Conversaton with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door", June 9, 1984.
“Never curse an illness; better ask for health.”
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
Variant: It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Source: Men at Arms: The Play
“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
Variant: Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Source: This is My Story
Source: Ryan Gage On His Blossoming Career and Exciting New Projects! https://www.iconvsicon.com/2014/11/28/on-the-rise-ryan-gage-on-his-blossoming-career-and-exciting-new-projects/ (2014)
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 379
“He is no better and no worse,
but he is free of Lethe's curse:
his warm hand makes a human pledge.”
Poem without a Hero (1963)
Context: All the mirrors on the wall
show a man not yet appeared
who could not enter this white hall.
He is no better and no worse,
but he is free of Lethe's curse:
his warm hand makes a human pledge.
Strayed from the future, can it be
that he will really come to me,
turning left from the bridge?
