Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
As quoted in The Wilson Era; Years of War and After, 1917–1923 (1946) by Josephus Daniels, p. 624. Referenced in "Bartleby.com" http://www.bartleby.com/73/1288.html <br class="br">1920s and later
“I have not told half of what I saw.”
Marco Polo (1254–1324) Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia
Non ho scritto neppure la metà delle cose che ho visto.
On his death-bed, when urged to retract "some of the seemingly incredible statements he made in his book", as quoted in The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian (J. M. Dent, 1926), p. xxiv. Quote in Italian from Imago mundi seu Chronica (c. 1330) by Jacopo d'Acqui, as reported in the bibliographic note to Marco Polo: Storia del mercante che capì la Cina (2009) by Vito Bianchi.
“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Source: The Song of Achilles
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587) Scottish monarch and queen consort of France
"Mary, Queen of Scots" The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t115.e2074
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
“As a realist, you must give me the watch and not the time.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“God should be welcomed in the heart and not in the act of worship alone.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.
“Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player
“If you want to make history, you have to do historic things.”
Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player
“It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not…”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
“One night comes suddenly, I will add your kingdom to my empire.”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
Source: Freely, John (The Grand Turk)
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
Ch XVI : The Great Retreat, p. 347.
The Rommel Papers (1953)
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) American serial killer
1977 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEWsxCrMM1U in Pitkin County Prison, Colorado
