
Mental and Physical Pabulum
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VI - Mind and Matter
Mental and Physical Pabulum
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VI - Mind and Matter
“Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
The Laurel Seed; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 439.
“Never put sofas against wall.”
Patricia Volk, " The Sweet Smell of Excess http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/style/tmagazine/08texcess.html", The New York Times (October 8, 2006; retrieved October 4, 2007).
The 1957 Ford Almanac has the quote "It's too late to read the handwriting on the wall when your back's up against it", attributed to "Anon." The quote appeared in several variations afterwards, for instance in an essay by Meredith Thring in Nature Magazine in 1965. It began to be attributed without context to Stevenson in the 1970s. According to "Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy" by Porter McKeever (p. 566), Stevenson made this remark "with increasing frequency in the final months of his life"; but Stevenson died in 1965 and this book does not give a precise reference. Absent better attestation, Stevenson either used the quote from elsewhere or the association with Stevenson is a mistake.
Misattributed
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Tales of Power" (Chapter 10)
“When the X500 revolution comes, your name will be lined against the wall and shot.”
As quoted in Peter Gutmann's X509 style guide http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt