
“Should and would build no bridges.”
Lini
(15 October 1991)
“Should and would build no bridges.”
Lini
(15 October 1991)
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.
This became widely attributed to Isaac Newton after Dominique Pire ascribed it to "the words of Newton" in his Nobel Lecture, 11 December 1958. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1958/pire-lecture.html Pire refers not to Isaac, but to Joseph Fort Newton, who is widely reported to have said "People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges." This appears to be paraphrased from a longer passage found in his essays and addresses, The One Great Church: Adventures of Faith (1948), pp. 51–52: "Why are so many people shy, lonely, shut up within themselves, unequal to their tasks, unable to be happy? Because they are inhabited by fear, like the man in the Parable of the Talents, erecting walls around themselves instead of building bridges into the lives of others; shutting out life."
Misattributed
“Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.”
“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”
This has appeared as a variant of Sun Tzu's assertion to "leave a way of escape." Tu Mu, commenting on Sun Tzu, advises, "Show him there is a road to safety..." Ch. 7; it has also recently appeared on the internet attributed to Scipio Africanus, but without citation.
Disputed
The Savage Nation (1995- ), 2016
“There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.”
Mark Michaels Quoted in The Billboard Book of Rock Arranging (1990)
"What These Children Are Like" (1963), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 548.
“Words flow under a bridge of silence.”
A Song For You (1980).
“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”
Comment on the construction of a bridge in Belgrade (22 August 1963), quoted in Chicago Tribune (22 August 1963) "Khrushchev Needles Peking"
Lee Chu-feng (2009) cited in " Bridge to Xiamen popular with Kinmen residents http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2009/02/08/2003435563" on Taipei Times, 8 February 2009