
„I had three secrets and sold them all.“
— William Saroyan American writer 1908 - 1981
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
John 12:5 KJV
— William Saroyan American writer 1908 - 1981
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
— Sharon Kay Penman, libro When Christ and His Saints Slept
Origine: When Christ and His Saints Slept
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Kenyan writer 1938
Origine: I Will Marry When I Want
— Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
Leonides p. 427
Gates of Fire (1998)
— Jack Vance American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916 - 2013
Origine: Quotations and text from the Dying Earth novels, The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 7, "The Manse of Iucounu"
— Benjamin Franklin, libro Poor Richard's Almanack
"Hints For Those That Would Be Rich", Poor Richard's Almanack (1737)
Poor Richard's Almanack
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : A Penny sav'd is Twopence clear.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
— Evagrius Ponticus Christian monk 345 - 399
The Praktikos
— Peace Pilgrim American non-denominational spiritual teacher 1908 - 1981
As quoted in "Pushing World Peace — it's a living" by Beverly Creamer in Honolulu Advertiser (15 August 1980)
— Maxine Waters U.S. Representative from California 1938
Mad Maxine Waters Brags That She Threatens Trump Supporters ‘All The Time’, Dailywire, 10 September 2018
— Jonah Goldberg American political writer and pundit 1969
2010s, 2018, Breaking democratic norms was rampant before the anonymous op-ed. Now it's a free-for-all (2018)
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
2010s, 2016, July, (21 July 2016)
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, libro Lays of Ancient Rome
Horatius, st. 32 & 33
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842)
Contesto: p>Then none was for a party,
Then all were for the state;
Then the rich man helped the poor,
And the poor man loved the great;
Then lands were fairly portioned,
Then spoils were fairly sold;
The Romans were like brothers
In the brave days of old.Now Roman is to Roman
More hateful than a foe;
And the Tribunes beard the high
and the fathers grind the low;
As we wax hot in faction,
In battle we wax cold;
And men fight not as they fought
In the brave days of old.</p
— Gabrielle Zevin, libro Elsewhere
Origine: Elsewhere
— Ambrose Bierce, libro The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
— Jesse Owens American track and field athlete 1913 - 1980
Contesto: To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first "second" is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final "second" — the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete — is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.
— Martial, libro Epigrammi
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
V, 81 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
Originale: (la) Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
— Lalu Prasad Yadav Indian politician 1948
[Stop this La-lu-nacy, please!, http://web.mid-day.com/columns/mayank_shekhar/2005/february/103222.htm, Mid Day, February 09, 2005, 2006-05-23]).
Originale: Swarg nahin, swar diya hai.
— David Levithan American author and editor 1972
Origine: Two Boys Kissing