
“Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.”
Act II, scene iii
The Double Dealer (1694)
Variant: Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.”
Act II, scene iii
The Double Dealer (1694)
[7238@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
"Ulysses," lines 16–20, from Poems 1930-1933 (1933).
Poems
“The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.”
Pearls of Wisdom
The Life and Works of Goethe (1855; repr. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856) vol. 1, p. 30, often misattributed to Thomas Carlyle.
Context: Instead, therefore, of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas.
“Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 2, pg. 48
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.423