“Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.”
Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies
Source: Lords and Ladies
“Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.”
Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies
Source: Lords and Ladies
“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”
Chinua Achebe book Things Fall Apart
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Trilogy, pt. 3 "Torture at H Block"
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems
“… A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Well of Ascension
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) Founder and 1st Governor General of Pakistan
Address to the League Lucknow session in 1937, following elections held under the Government of India Act, as quoted in Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan (1976) by Ziauddin Ahmad Suleri, p. 1
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2013, Vers l’Essentiel : lettres d’un maître spirituel, Les Sept Flèches, 94, 978-2-97003-258-8]
Spiritual life, Outline
“Distrust the man who smiles before he speaks.”
Alphonse Daudet Tartarin sur les Alpes
Méfie-toi de celui qui rit avant de parler!
Tartarin sur les Alpes (1885; repr. New York: H. Holt, 1917) p. 89; Katharine Prescott Wormeley (trans.) Tartarin of Tarascon. To Which is Added Tartarin on the Alps (Boston: Little, Brown, 1900) p. 241.