“As to the text accordyng never a deill,
Mair than langis to the cart the fift quheill.”
Gavin Douglas (1474–1522) Scottish Churchman, Scholar, Poet
Bk. 13, prologue, line 117.
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“A bumper of good liquor
Will end a contest quicker
Than justice, judge, or vicar.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-British politician, playwright and writer
Act I, sc. iii.
The Duenna (1775)
“Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.”
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
ABC News (12 July 2006)
1990s
“Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.”
Stephen L. Carter book The Emperor of Ocean Park
Source: The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002), Ch. 46, Resting Places, I
“There is no greater mystery than this: being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality.”
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader
Abide as the Self
“Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.”
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English novelist, poet, critic, teacher
Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 19, p. 274
“Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse.”
Hester Thrale (1741–1821) Welsh author and salon-holder
Letter to Sir James Fellowes, November 6, 1817; The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (2002) vol. 6, p. 130.
“[A]n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth.”
Dave Sim (1956) Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus
No. 11, p. 27
Following Cerebus (2004-)
“More people have died at Chappaquiddick than have died at nuclear plants.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951) U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, author, and television personality
[Davis, E. Gene, Get 'Em Laughing: Public Speaking Humor, Quotes and Illustrations, Trafford Publishing, 2007-09-12, 195, 1425114334, 9781425114336]
Attributed
“Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 82.
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…”
George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss
Book I, ch. x
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“On ev'ry hand it will allowed be,
He's just—nae better than he should be.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton (1786)
“There can be no mistake more inexcusable and fatal than to doubt, disobey, or neglect the Bible.”
R. A. Torrey (1856–1928) American writer
The Divine Origin of the Bible (1899)
“People Are Much More Beautiful Than They Think: Long Live Their True Face.”
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) sculptor from France
1940's
“One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Columbus (1844)
Albrecht Thaer (1752–1828) German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory for plant nutrition
Thaer cited in: Marion W. Gray (2000). Productive Men, Reproductive Women: The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres During the German Enlightenment. p. 267.
“There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
Source: 1920s, Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
Bridget Riley (1931) British painter
Quoted in Karl Ruhrberg et al., Art of the 20th Century (2000), p. 344.
“Such death makes happier end
than conquests of huge realms or infinite gold.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Felice e cotal morte e scempio,
Via più ch' acquisto di province e d'oro.
Canto VIII, stanza 44 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
