“Generation after generation, humankind fights to preserve the status quo, maintaining "better the devil you know than the devil you don't know," a bit of folk cynicism that assumes the unknown to be dangerous.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power, p. 197
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“It did not last: the devil, shouting "Ho.
Let Einstein be," restored the status quo.”
"In continuation of Pope on Newton" from Poems (1926); Squire is here extending upon the famous statement of Alexander Pope:
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light.
As quoted in The Epigrammatists : A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times (1875) by Henry Philip Dodd, p. 329.
“Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.”
“Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.”
"Heartattack and Vine", Heartattack and Vine (1980).
“You know the Devil is your enemy but you do not deal with him as such.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 28
“You knew better than to pay mind to what people and the devil say.”
Disaster Tourism.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
Original: (it) Una persona completa, all'occorrenza, sa mostrare la sua essenza di innocente angelo o pericoloso diavolo.
Source: prevale.net
[Jourdan, Kristi, Tea Party hopeful - gives voters third choice, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 1B, March 8, 2010]
“Good at a fight, but better at a play;
Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.”
On a Cast of Sheridan's Hand.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.”
Interlude “Summer, 1818” (p. 170)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)