Source: The Metamorphosis
Source: 1990s and later, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992), p. 140
“Man is a tool-using animal…Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
Bk. I, ch. 5.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”
Sand and Foam (1926)
He's on the way – HIS LIFE begins TODAY [written text in his painting 'Les mains – hommage a Majakovski', 1951 - [ Vladimir Mayakovsky was a Russian Futurist poet].
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1950's
Source: Fernand Léger – The Later Years -, catalogue ed. Nicolas Serota, published by the Trustees of the Whitechapel Art gallery, London, Prestel Verlag, 1988, p. 68
“He’s as impartial as a herring’s backbone, for he favors neither side and is attached to both!”
Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 15 “The Manxmen” (p. 152)
“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”
"Mr. Icky"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Concerning the Jews (Harper's Magazine, Sept. 1899)
Quoted in "Tony Abbott under fire" http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s596135.htm on abc.net.au, July 22, 2002.
2002
Discourses (1967), p. 364.
General sources
Context: One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.
“dear boss i relay this information
without any fear that humanity
will take warning and reform”
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying
