John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Book III, Ode 29, lines 65–68.
Imitation of Horace (1685)
“The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct”
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
to Erastus Corning and Others https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln6/1:569?rgn=div1;view=fulltextLetter (12 June 1863) in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol.6" (The Abraham Lincoln Association, 1953), p. 265 <br class="br">1860s
Pericles (-494–-429 BC) Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens
Pericles commenting the participation of Athenian citizens in politics, as quoted in Models of Democracy (2006) by David Held, Stanford University Press, p. 14. Book II, chapter 40.
“A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.”
Fred Dibnah (1938–2004) English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering
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“Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 6, Perturbations of the mind rectified. From himself, by resisting to the utmost, confessing his grief to a friend, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886) Anglo-American temperance orator
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 46.
“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies
Solomon (-990–-931 BC) king of Israel and the son of David
Ecclesiastes 8:1-4 http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/ecclesiastes/8/, NWT