“The highest cloth is made from the excrement of worms, which is silk.”
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
“The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
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“Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 22: "Against Pride in Clothes".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī - Book of Faith and Infidelity, vol.3, p. 202 & vol.2, p. 316
“Transferring the receptor from a social worm to a solitary worm makes the solitary worm social.”
Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist
In Search of Memory (2006)
Context: Cori Bargmann... has studied two variants of C. elegans... The only difference between the two is one amino acid in an otherwise shared receptor protein. Transferring the receptor from a social worm to a solitary worm makes the solitary worm social.
“You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
"omlets are not made without breaking eggs" first appeared in English in 1796. It is from the French, "on ne saurait faire d'omelette sans casser des œufs" (1742 and earlier), attributed to François de Charette.<br>In the context of the Soviet Union, Time magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,753448-2,00.html attributes it to Lazar Kaganovich.<br>Walter Duranty associated with Stalin in the New York Times.<br>"But – to put it brutally – you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, and the Bolshevist leaders are just as indifferent to the casualties that may be involved in their drive toward socialization as any General during the World War who ordered a costly attack in order to show his superiors that he and his division possessed the proper soldierly spirit. In fact, the Bolsheviki are more indifferent because they are animated by fanatical conviction."<br> Walter Duranty, Special Cable to The New York Times http://www.artukraine.com/old/famineart/duranty.htm, The New York Times, New York, March 31, 1933, page 13. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
“906. Silkes and satins put out the fire in the chimney.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Matthew Lewis (writer) book The Monk
Page 315; "Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine", line 59.
The Monk (1796)
“The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.”
T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) English Imagist poet and critic
Speculations (Essays, 1924)
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 75
Tipu Sultan (1750–1799) Ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore
Tipu Sultan's address on 1788, Quoted in The Sword of Tipu Sultan, by Bhagwan S Gidwani https://books.google.com.sa/books?id=EimPBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PT262#v=onepage&q&f=true <br class="br">From Tipu Sultan's Decrees