“Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.”
Sunset at Blandings (1977 (posthumously published))
“Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.”
Sunset at Blandings (1977 (posthumously published))
No.15. Ivanhoe — REBECCA.
Literary Remains
1963, Address at Vanderbilt University
The Human Sacrifice Channel? Crush-Video Arguments Get Creative http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/10/07/the-human-sacrifice-channel-crush-video-arguments-get-creative/ Wall Street Journal, (Oct, 2008).
2000s
R. v. Commissioners of Pagham (1828), 8 B. & C. 362.
"What Ivanka wants, Ivanka gets." http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/04/what_ivanka_wants_ivanka_gets.html American Thinker, April 13, 2017
2010s, 2017
“He gave man speech, and speech created thought,
Which is the measure of the universe.”
Asia, Act II, sc. iv, l. 72
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 95
“A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts iv th' case.”
Casual Observations http://books.google.com/books?id=rTUPAAAAYAAJ&q="A+fanatic+is+a+man+that+does+what+he+thinks+th'+Lord+wud+do+if+He+knew+th'+facts+iv+th'+case"&pg=PA258#v=onepage, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy (1900)
The American Credo: A Contribution toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (1920)
1920s
“Xenophanes speaks thus:
And no man knows distinctly anything,
And no man ever will.”
Pyrrho, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics
“If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.”
"Misery is the River of the World", Blood Money (2002).
Source: The Root of the Righteous (1955), Chapter 34.
“He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."”
Ille potens sui
laetusque deget, cui licet in diem
dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra
nube polum pater occupato
vel sole puro."
Book III, ode xxix, line 41
John Dryden's paraphrase:
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk
Rival Caesars (1903)
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 106.
As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=%22The+principle+of+enslaving+human+beings+because+they+are+inferior%22&source=bl&ots=YA6W9JoaPr&sig=aO15r4OJEVD8bQUIjM34u42GjXg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM9vuXwsrLAhWJeD4KHWvpAUcQ6AEIHjAB#v=onepage&q=%22The%20principle%20of%20enslaving%20human%20beings%20because%20they%20are%20inferior%22&f=false (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 193
1860s, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (April 1860)
Daniel Martin (1977)
Sahih Bukhari 4:52:74i http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/052.sbt.html#004.052.074i
Sunni Hadith
“Man is an eternal sophomore.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
“Man must be so weighed as though there were a God within him.”
Impendendus homo est, deus esse ut possit in ipso.
Book IV, line 407.
Astronomica
My Philosophy (1965) http://www.ronthephilosopher.org/phlspher/page84.htm.
“When a man’s success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104
Qu'elle est jolie, translated by C. L. Betts; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 57.
Will I succeed? Will I be able to fulfil God's command?
SENESH, Hannah, DAFNE, Reuven; PALGI, Yoel; SENESH, Catherine. Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. London : Sphere, 1973. p. 92.
“He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.”
The Hermit
“For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose,
The best good man with the worst-natured muse.”
An allusion to Horace, Satire x. Book i. Compare: "Thou best-humour'd man with the worst-humour'd muse!", Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation, Postscript.
Other
c. 1960
Source: 1960 - 1968, Dialogues – conversations with.., quotes, c. 1960, pp. 153-154
The Earth Speaks to Bryan (1925), p. 8
October 2, 2016, on ABC's This Week
Source: 'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Bernie Sanders" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-rudy-giuliani-sen-bernie-sanders/story?id=42496702. ABC News. 2016-10-02. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
Exchange between CNN reporter Jake Tapper and Flake after his announcement that he would not run for re-election in 2018 on 24 October 2017
Statement in the House of Commons (29 November 2006)
p, 125
The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 8, "The Children of the Open Sea" (Ged)
Patheos, Satanic Panic and Exorcism in Schools? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2016/09/21/satanic-panic-and-exorcism-in-schools/ (September 21, 2016)
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 18, “A Net of Stars” (p. 262).
“What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?”
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. X (p. 287)
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 253]
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), pp. 283–284
“Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.”
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 69, “Wind or Women’s Fancy” (p. 512)
He then addressed somebody, "O Unais! go to the wife of this (man) and stone her to death" So, Unais went and stoned her to death.
Narrated Abu Huraira and Zaid bin Khalid Al-Juhani [3, 49, 860]
Sunni Hadith
Address to the Foreign Policy Association, New York City (October 20, 1945), in Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker (1963)
As quoted by A. D'Abro, The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein https://archive.org/details/TheEvolutionOfScientificThought (1927)
Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 5
All Sex, All the Time.
City Journal (1998 - 2008)
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King
East and West Poems, Part I, The Old Major Explains.
Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)
The Present Age and of the Difference Between a Genius and an Apostle, translated by Alexander Dru (1962)
1840s, Two Ages: A Literary Review (1846)
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 14.
Patheos, Philosophistry http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2017/04/12/philosophistry/ (April 12, 2017)
Source: The Martyrdom of Man (1872), Chapter II, "Religion", p. 138.
“A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.”
Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.
VII, 73.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
Peace Bomb satsang, 11 October 1970, India Gate, New Delhi, India (translated from Hindi)
1970s
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.245
Hear, hear.
On the Labour Party (7 July 1906), quoted in ‘The Chamberlain Celebration In Birmingham.’, The Times (10 July 1906), p. 11.
1900s
Interview, Feb 3 1964, reproduced in Talks With Authors, ed. Charles F. Madden
“But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.
I.i.2
Epistulae ad Caesarem senem
Stobaeus, Florilegium, CV., 4.
In letter to plantation manager, as quoted in The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/, by Henry Wiencek, Smithsonian Magazine, (October 2012)
Attributed
As quoted by Robert Chambers, "Sir Isaac Newton and the Apple," The Book of Days (1832) Vol. 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=K0UJAAAAIAAJ, p. 757.
“I am afraid of a new barbarism which is killing
man's freedom.”
ATV 179; p. 151
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 26.
The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
Posted on a website under the alias "RSherman25", quoted in "Richard Sherman Blasts 'Black Lives Matter' Activist" https://web.archive.org/web/20150916235759/http://newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/dylan-gwinn/2015/09/14/richard-sherman-blasts-black-lives-matter-activist (14 September 2015), by Dylan Gwinn, NewsBusters (2015), Reston, Virginia: Media Research Center. Sherman has said that although he agreed with some of the sentiments expressed, he did not write or say this http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/video-richard-sherman-speaks-passionately-on-black-lives-matter/.
Misattributed
The Eccentricities of John Edwin (second edition, 1791), vol. i. p. 74. These lines Edwin offers as heads of a "sermon". Longfellow places them in the mouth of "The Cobbler of Hagenau," as a "familiar tune". See "The Wayside Inn, part ii. The Student's Tale".
“A man who bets on greed and dishonesty won’t be wrong too often.”
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 82
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), p. 120 The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 3 (1892)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
Concurring, Dennis v. United States, 339 U.S. 162, 184 (1950).
Judicial opinions
Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 50
Interview segment http://www.radiodiaries.org/mandela/t_movement.html on All Things Considered (NPR) broadcast (27 April 2004)
2000s
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
"Why some Muslims want to kill the Yazidis by genocide" http://nypost.com/2014/08/17/why-some-muslims-want-to-destroy-the-yazidis-by-genocide/, New York Post (August 17, 2014).
New York Post
pg 125
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)