“He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.”
Vol. I, ch. 11
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
“He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.”
Vol. I, ch. 11
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
“A skilled soldier kills your enemies, but a skilled duelist kills your allies.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000)
“The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.”
Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 64)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
“We don't live in our fears, we live in our hopes.”
Following the Steelers win over the Rams in 2007, quoted in "Steelers Notebook: Turf wars — Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?" by Gerry Dulac in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (22 December 2007) http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07356/843782-66.stm?cmpid=sports.xml
“Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.”
The Light That Failed http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/TheLightThatFailed/index.html, ch. 11 (1890-1891).
Other works
“My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.”
On acquiring El Día, now the largest newspaper by circulation in Puerto Rico, as quoted by the Associated Press http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2003/Ex-Puerto-Rican-Governor-Ferre-Dies-at-99/id-8cb93046108ad2da5ed0958cda645bfb.
“The secret of my success is longevity.”
In Herbert F. Vetter, " Not The Average Philosopher http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/hartshorne.html", Harvard Magazine, May/June 1997, Volume 99, Number 5. On his selection to the Library of Living Philosophers.
“The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
As quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw (1949) by Stephen Winsten
1940s and later