A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/1442/
JULIET: But old folks, many feign as they were dead;
Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.
— Romeo and Juliet, II, v
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“Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?”
— Sherlock Holmes, in “The Adventure of the Dying Detective”
Evil? Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the destroyer. Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good.
— Sutekh, in “The Pyramids of Mars”
“There's this man in Florence claims that by arranging ground glasses in a certain order, it's possible to see the moon and stars as large as your hand.”
“Is that a good thing?”
— Duke Juliano and Marco, in “The Masque of Mandragora”
BOURBON: The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:
Let life be short; else shame will be too long.
— Henry V, IV, v
I had remained indoors all day, for the weather had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence.
— Watson, in “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor”
You made us, man of evil, but we are free!
— Shardovan, to the Master, in “Castrovalva”
“Well, you realize your position, you and your accomplice here. If I were to shout for help as we pass through the village—”
“My dear sir, if you did anything so foolish you would probably enlarge the two limited titles of our village inns by giving us 'The Dangling Prussian' as a signpost.”
— Von Bork and Holmes, in “His Last Bow”
MALCOLM: He died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
As 'twere a careless trifle.
— Macbeth, I, iv
A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Sometimes you laugh because you’ve got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you’re alive, when you really shouldn’t be.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Nation, ch. 4 “Bargains, Covenants and Promises” (2009)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4614…
The trouble with the farmer up to now has been that every time somebody has thought of relief for him it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. That’s what’s the matter with him now. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1927-02-27), “Weekly Article: Big Bouts for Farm Relief”
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/75676/
You sleep, gaping,
On your bags of gold, adore them like hallowed
Relics not meant to be touched, stare as at gorgeous
Canvases. Money is meant to be spent, it buys pleasure:
Did you know that? Bread, vegetables, wine, you can
Buy almost everything it’s hard to live without.
[Congestis undique saccis
indormis inhians et tamquam parcere sacris
cogeris aut pictis tamquam gaudere tabellis.
Nescis, quo valeat nummus, quem praebeat usum?
Panis ematur, holus, vini sextarius, adde
quis humana sibi doleat natura negatis.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 70ff (1.1.70-75) (35 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/75673/
I made no remark, however, but sat nursing my wounded leg. I had a Jezail bullet through it some time before, and, though it did not prevent me from walking, it ached wearily at every change of the weather.
— Watson, in “The Sign of the Four”
BRUTUS: If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
— Julius Caesar, III, ii
The fifth planet is 107 million miles out and 12 million years back, so we've no time to lose.
— The Doctor, in “Image of the Fendahl”
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1863-11-19), “Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg [Gettysburg Address],” Pennsylvania
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7562…
Not hat people, are you? Either of you?
— The Doctor, in “Frontios”
