“Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?”
Edward Jenks (1861–1939) British legal scholar
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter XV, Changers In Land Law, p. 237
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“If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Si on juge de l'amour par la plupart de ses effets, il ressemble plus à la haine qu'à l'amitié.
Maxim 72.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, And music more melodious than the spheres.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Averroes (1126–1198) Medieval Arab scholar and philosopher
Averroes, Ralph Lerner (1974) Averroes On Plato's Republic. p. xxiv
“Nothing is harder for Satan to bear than a person who recites the Qur’an by looking at the pages”
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
of the Qur’an
Thawabul A’mal, Page 231
Shi'ite Hadith
“I hope my work is more interesting and more intelligent than I am.”
Vincent Gallo (1961) American film director, writer, model, actor and musician
Another Man Essay
“I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2005-07-14, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg83284.html, <br class="br">2000s, 2005
“China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.”
John Mearsheimer book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 10, Great Power Politics in the Twenty First Century, p. 398
“It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il n'est pas si dangereux de faire du mal à la plupart des hommes que de leur faire trop de bien.
Maxim 238.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 72)
“Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire,
And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Then farewell riches, the fat is in the fire,
And never shall I to like riches aspire.
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)
“The power grid's exposure risk is greater than that of power plants during natural disasters.”
Lee Chih-kung (2017) cited in " Taipower to improve electricity towers http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2017/08/04/2003675856" on Taipei Times, 4 August 2017
“It is far easier to learn science first and philosophy later than the other way round!”
Harvey Brown (philosopher) (1950) Philosopher of physics
Physics and Philiosophy in Oxford: a prosperous example of interdisciplinarity, in [Innovation and interdisciplinarity in the university, EDIPUCRS, 2007, 8-574-30677-0, 308 http://books.google.com/books?id=-OGr007TQ0AC&printsec=frontcover#PPA308,M1]
“Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: Table Talk (1782), Line 246.
“Tell me if the lovers are losers… tell me if any get more than the lovers.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
"Cool Tombs" (1918)
“Time's a strange fellow;
more he gives than takes
(and he takes all)”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
78
95 poems (1958)
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 8 (p. 132; Vorkosigan to Cordelia; she quotes it back to him on p. 236)
“One shouldn't learn more than what one absolutely needs against life.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“They exude an atmosphere of The New Republic—a sort of Crolier-than-thou air. p. 36”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 1: 1918
“I would stand with God against man, rather than with man against God.”
Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885–1954) Portuguese diplomat
Quoted in Bard The Complete History of the Holocaust (2001), p. 327; see also "Aristides de Sousa Mendes" at Jewish Virtual Library http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mendes.html.