Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
A collection of quotes on the topic of forearm.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 71.
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/speed-1994 of Speed (10 June 1994) <br class="br">Reviews, Four star reviews
Xavier Leroy (1968) French computer scientistand programmer
Sources <br class="br">Source: Xavier Leroy (2005-07-23), Post to the Caml mailing list, 2008-02-20 http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2005/07/0d3297c63e4b92fd956ea53d7b9ff255.en.html,
J. L. Austin (1911–1960) English philosopher
Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 195.
Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008) Novelist, short story writer, poet
"The Man Who Had No Idea" (originally published 1978).
The Man Who Had No Idea (and other stories) (1982)
“Forewarned, forearmed, is sheer nonsense.”
Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845) British author and journalist
"That a Burnt Child often Dreads the Fire".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Context: Forewarned, forearmed, is sheer nonsense. Who is so indefatigable a scribbler as your abundantly damned author? Which of our orators speak so long and so often as he whom nobody listens to? What actors are so constantly before the public as those whom the town will not go to see? Who so easy to deceive as the dupe who has been taken in all his days? The gamester is a legitimate child of that frail couple, Flesh and Blood; he loses a fourth of what he is worth at the first throw—esteems himself lucky if he loses less today than he did yesterday—goes on staking and forfeiting hour by hour—and parts with his last guinea by exactly the same turn of the dice which lost him his first. Experience leaves fools as foolish as ever.