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John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Source: Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Manuscript note, quoted at The Eric Hoffer Award official site http://www.hofferaward.com/
“Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!”
To a Mouse, st. 1 (1785)
Context: Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
attributed to Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir (1945), page 331
1910s
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Once again, this is far from Muir's style of writing. The quote does not come up in any search of John Muir's Journals or his published texts on the John Muir Exhibit website. It is most commonly put on t-shirts - never in any scholarly source.
Misattributed
“No man knows what he can do until he tries.”
Carter G. Woodson book The Mis-Education of the Negro
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.”
Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk
Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) Iraqi politician and President
Saddam Hussein Farewell Letter http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16368242/ (MSNBC online) <br class="br">Statement in a farewell letter written to the Iraqi people, written Nov. 5, 2006, released Dec. 27, 2006.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor
Diet of Worms (1521)
Source: *Detlef Ploese and Guenther Vogler, eds., Buch der Reformation. Eine Auswahl zeitgenössischer Zeugnisse (1476-1555). Berlin: Union Verlag, 1989, pp. 245-53
Richard of Chichester (1197–1253) Bishop of Chichester, Saint
Quoted in Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints, vol. II: April, May, June, Burns & Oates, 1956, p. 24.
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Anonymous American proverb; since 1998 this has often been attributed to Mark Twain on the internet, but no contemporary evidence of him ever using it has been located. <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that matters. <br class="br">"Stub Ends of Thoughts" by Arthur G. Lewis, a collection of sayings, in Book of the Royal Blue Vol. 14, No. 7 (April 1911), cited as the earliest known occurrence in The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, edited by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro, p. 232 <br class="br">It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins. <br class="br">Anonymous quote in the evening edition of the East Oregonian (20 April 1911) <br class="br">What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog. <br class="br">Dwight D. Eisenhower, declaring his particular variant on the proverbial assertion in Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast (31 January 1958) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11229 <br class="br">Misattributed