
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”
La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne) (2003)
Interlude to Respect, live at Basin Street West, San Francisco, 22 February 1969, Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT4PpnoPPqk&feature=youtu.be&t=420 on YouTube
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”
La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne) (2003)
Source: The book of the husbandry. (1523/1882), p. 47.
“She frieth in her owne grease.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The wheel that squeaks the loudest
Is the one that gets the grease.”
The Kicker
“3179. Let him fry in his own Grease.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Quoted by Otto Stern, a colleague of Einstein in Zurich from 1912 to 1914, in a 1962 oral history interview http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4904.html with Thomas S. Kuhn
Attributed in posthumous publications
23 September 1878
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)
“You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.”
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 6, p. 101
"Notes on Professor Robison's Dissertation on Steam-engines" (1769)
Context: In Newcomen's engine, the piston is kept tight by water, which could not be applicable in this new method; as, if any of it entered into a partially-exhausted and hot cylinder, it would boil, and prevent the production of a vacuum, and would also cool the cylinder by its evaporation during the descent of the piston. I proposed to remedy this defect by employing wax, tallow, or other grease, to lubricate and keep the piston tight. It next occurred to me, that the mouth of the cylinder being open, the air which entered to act on the piston would cool the cylinder, and condense some steam on again filling it. I therefore proposed to put an air-tight cover upon the cylinder, with a hole and stuffing-box for the piston-rod to slide through, and to admit steam above the piston to act upon it, instead of the atmosphere.... There still remained another source of the destruction of steam, the cooling of the cylinder by the external air, which would produce an internal condensation whenever steam entered it, and which would be repeated every stroke; this I proposed to remedy by an external cylinder, containing steam, surrounded by another of wood, or of some other substance which would conduct heat slowly.