Season One
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“A schmuck named Nietzsche once wrote: 'Anything that's done out of love is beyond good and evil'. Now, here's the thing: I love my job. So what does that make me? My feeling always was, good and evil could kiss my ass. But one night...well, they kinda got together and bit me on it.”
“You know how they say 'No good deed goes unpunished'? I was about to become a poster boy for that phrase.”
“You have to understand something about justice in retirement communities. You even sneeze at an old person, you're not gonna make bond. So given my crime, and that this was my third strike,
you can guess the outcome.”
“Things just turned black, I couldn’t say a word. Didn’t have a thought.”
“Because of a bottleneck at the federal pen, they had to hold me a day at the court jail. Fortunately, the security there was a little less than lax.”
“Soon they’d be comparing me to the greats. Ed Coulters the Lizard, John Robbey the Cat, and from that night on I’d be Darien Fawkes the—”
“You know when they say 'When God wants to torture you he answers your prayers'? Well, I prayed for a miracle, and for my sins, he sent it.”
“Time flies when you’re having fun, or in a coma. I’d been unconscious for nearly three weeks. Just enough time for every muscle in my body to go on strike. But even though it was nice to be up and around, there are some days when you just shouldn’t get out of bed. ... My brother knew about me and spiders, he knew how I’d react. But only he knew what was coming next.”
“You know how they say 'Good things come to those who wait'? Well, the bad things are always impatient. When I felt it the first time, I didn’t know what to think. I mean, it wasn’t a headache exactly. It was as if something was knocking at the back door of my brain. Something that wanted in real bad. Staring into that mirror, I had the sudden horrible feeling that another person was looking back. A stranger who had stolen my face. What the hell was happening?”
“I could feel the quicksilver madness building in my brain, attacking my sanity like clockwork. I knew going invisible just made it worse. Without the counteragent, I only had days before the gland turned me back into a walking id. There was no choice. If I was gonna get payback for Kevin, I had to get the last part of him out of me.”
“No, I had to face facts. There was only one person I could look to now. And she was the last one who would want to see me. ... They say 'Memory is a luxury only those who go straight can afford'. But for Casey O’Claire, I’d always empty my pockets.”
“It took all my will to put the demon back in it’s bottle. But even that couldn’t prepare me for what was coming next.”
“I had no idea who they were, but I can tell you this much. Their car was really cheap.”
“The attacks were unbearable now. My sanity was slipping like a brick on a Frisco hill. To go invisible might just push me over the edge. But I had to try. This wasn’t about me anymore. This was for my brother, my girl. My conscience was calling, and it was time to get de Fehrn.”
“Sound triggered alarms. The slightest noise would set them off. No, I guess invisibility alone wasn’t gonna cut it here.”
“What’s past , they say, is prologue. My partner found us a half hour later, just in time to take the credit. Whatever you can say about him, he did deserve that raise. Huisclos confessed to everything. In the end, the poor schmo felt so guilty, he’d of taken the rap for snatching the Lindbergh baby. As for de Fehrn, well, they never did find a body. All I know is the flames meant for him took the last of my brother’s project. With the lab destroyed, the quicksilver process, all of Kevin’s work, was lost forever. And me, you ask… well, my brother’s legacy may have been out of sight, but it sure wasn’t out of my mind.”
“I believe in God, not cause I’m religious, but cause
there’s gotta be a being with a bigger sense of irony than me. After all this,
I still needed the counteragent. And there was only one person left I could turn
to.”
— Episode 1.01, “Pilot”
“Santayana once said that 'Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it'. Well, if that's true, then I'm screwed, 'cause here I am, repeating history all over again. ... Sewe, I was a thief. A good thief... okay, not so good. I got caught, tried, convicted, then I got a reprieve. Or so I thought. Turned out, I was better off in prison. But somewhere in this room is my ticket out of this mess.”
“Hey, you know the JFK quote about 'not asking what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country'? Well, I may not be a patriot, but I know a thing or two about gratitude. ... Oh yeah, my country'd given me a lot, alright. And now it wad time for a little payback.”
“What's the best thing about government service? For me, it's the health plan. You can get better, you can get worse, or you can just get with the program. This is the story of how Darien Fawkes got all three.”
“If I'd been shot, I wouldn't go
after the guy who made the bullet. I'd want the guy who put it in me.
Dr. Ike didn't count for squat. It was his Keeper Fogerty was after. I
sure hoped I was right, 'cause the way my head was pounding, I was on the verge of
becoming as whacked as Fogerty.”
— Episode 1.02, “The Catevari”
“In his very first story, Sherlock Holmes met his match. Her name was Irene Adler, but as Dr. Watson points out, 'She was always The Woman'. The Woman who eluded him. The Woman who got away. For Sherlock, it was a mystery. For me... it was elementary.”
“To Darien Fawkes, Jessica Semplar would always be 'The Kid'. On the whole, it was nothing new. All the women in my life leave me. Difference is, to them I was a man... to her I was magic. How do you say good-bye to that?”
— Episode 1.03, “Ralph”
“The Scottish philosopher Balfour said that 'Destiny is the scapegoat we make responsible for our crimes'. He was probably right, too. This philosophy, known as determinism, was best summed up by Doris Day with the words 'que sera sera'. Now, I'm not sayin' she was right. But if it was between Doris and that Scottish dude, I'd party with her any day.”
“Somebody once told me, 'If the
stoplight turns red before you can cross, your life changes forever'. I'll buy that it
changes, but just 'till the next morning. Then it's a whole new deal.”
— Episode 1.04, “Tiresias”
“A Nobel prize-winning smart-ass named George Bernard Shaw once said, 'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it'. ... Try telling that to someone who's been implanted with an artificial gland and subsequently enslaved by a government agency. If liberty means freedom, you can give me all the dread in the world.”
“Sitting across from my mentor, Liz Morgan, was like driving a tolen car down memory lane. You're afraid if you linger, you'll get busted. It's better to focus on the present.”
“Most ex-cons just put the past behind them. I missed it. Man, I missed the thrill. I missed the freedom. ... I'd been a thief for as long as I can remember. Back in junior high when most kids were joining the glee club, I was learning to drill safes and pick locks. And it was Liz who taught me. Yeah, she was good—one of the best. I'd always thought we made a good team. And then one day she just up an vanished. No explanation, no good-bye. Nothin'.”
“Little known law of the universe: when someone who owns a mansion hires you to steal something hires you to steal something, it can never end well. Now, this time it didn't even begin well.”
“See, that's the problem with getting caught... you don't have a choice.”
“All the Quicksilver I'd used
during the heist was coming back to haunt me in a bad way. On top of that I was on
the run from the Agency and on the outs with liz. I turned to the only friends I had
left.”
“Liz's motto for good-bye was
always, 'Faster's better'. Like tearing off a Band-Aid. Of course, if the wound beneath
isn't healed yet, nothing helps. Except time. And time leaves a big, nasty scar we call
the past. It's the hardest prison to break free from, 'cause for most of your life you
can't even see the walls.”
— Episode 1.05, “Liberty and Larceny”
“F. Scott Fitzgerald once said to Ernest Hemingway , 'Rich people are different from you and me'. To which Hemingway replied, 'Yeah, they got more money'. Which brings me to a personal favorite of mine, Willie Sutton , who said, 'The reason I rob banks is 'cause that's where the money is'.”
“Alright so, Hobbes fired his gun
and I knocked the guy into the pool, which managed to fake out Lawson and scare the crap
outta fifty terrorists. Not bad for a days work.”
— Episode 1.06, “The Devil You Know”
“I think it was a Brit named Sir Robert Walpole who coined the phrase, 'All men have their price'. Now, I happen to agree. Although my point of view on the matter has changed... I used to think my price would be money... or diamonds... or gold, you know? Well, imagine my surprise when I realized that my price has become a needle in the arm. Hey, don't get me wrong—I still have expensive taste: hey, your tax dollars paid millions for me to get that needle.”
“You know in cartoons when they have the little angel on one shoulder and the little devil on the other, telling the guy what to do? These days I try, I really try, to listen to the angel. But with me, somehow the devil always wins anyway.”
“I always believed in the saying, 'One good turn deserves another...I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine...I'll show you mine if you show me yours'. I kinda figured it like this: I release the prisoner they're blackmailing The Keeper with, and The Keeper gives me the formula for the counteragent they're blackmailing me with.”
“Just when you think you know all
the payoffs that exist—money, gold, jewels, needle in the arm—another one sneaks
up and surprises you... just like people often do.”
— Episode 1.07, “Impetus”
“A nineteenth-century scientist, Thomas Huxley , once asked, 'If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then how much knowledge does a person need before they're safe?' ... My guess, a whole helluva lot.”
“Okay, this chick named Pandora was so damn curious she opened a box that unleashed pain, disease, and other fun stuff into the universe. This is the story of what happened when Darien Fawkes met Pandora .”
“I gotta question: 'If a little
knowledge is a dangerous thing, then how much knowledge does a person need before they're
safe?' ... My guess -- they'll never be safe again.”
— Episode 1.08, “The Value of Secrets”
“Okay, when you spend time around
a guy who keeps yelling the 'sky is falling ', it's a real shocker when
a piece of it actually hits you on the head. But for once, Hobbes was right. The guy's a
thief.”
— Episode 1.09, “Separation Anxiety”
“An English diplomat once said that ' The ends must justify the means'. These guys were smuggling monkeys illegally so that medical researchers can experiment on them legally. Whether those ends justify those means I'll leave to the activists... well let's just say keeping this chimp from being experimented on justifies the means... for me.”
“So there is one thing that they don't teach you to watch out for when you get an invisibility gland installed in your head — that you're invisible.”
“Shakespeare once
wrote, 'The evil that men do lives after them'. Well, that's never been more true than
with Carver. But maybe the next line of Shakespeare's quote won't
come true in this case — ah, the one about 'The good is oft interred with the bones'.
Well, maybe Carver's good is now in Sarah's head. And who knows, maybe she can help see to
it that his research does some good.”
— Episode 1.10, “It Hurts When I Do This”
“Mark Twain once said, 'Be good, and you will be lonely'. Now, what he didn't say is that lonely and alone aren't exactly the same thing. You see, I've been lonely ever since I became the Invisible Man, but, what I was about to find out in the worst way was...that I was never alone.”
“The day everything went to hell started like any other day. With a morning, sunshine, blue skies. Eh, since most of my life is spent in a storm, I've grown to appreciate the calm that comes before .”
“They say 'Necessity is the mother of invention'. And when the necessity is survival, she can be one mean mother. Of course, it's her child, invention, who's the real dangerous one.”
“See, I'm one of those guys whose past always comes back to haunt him. But this time, I felt like I'd come back to haunt my past.”
“Mark Twain , who lived inside Samuel Clemens, said, 'Be good and you will be lonely'. Now, I've been good and I've been bad, but if I was really alone, I'd be dead now.”
“Although in a way, he brought this on himself, I still felt
terrible about beatin' the crap out of my boss... I guess most people wouldn't understand
that.”
— Episode 1.11, “The Other Invisible Man”
“A great 20th-century philosopher named Charles Schulz once had Linus observe that 'Big sisters are the crabgrass on the lawn of life'. I guess the same could be said of big brothers...After our parents died, Kevin and I were raised by our aunt and uncle. I never had enough time to get to know my brother very well.”
“My problem is I had to tell lies... 'Cause no one would believe the truth.”
“Kevin's body was where Arnaud had
said...so, I got to bury my brother again. Except it was different this time—my anger
had gone. I wasn't really sure what had replaced it. All I knew is I missed him like hell.
A journalist named P.J. O'Rourke said that 'As we get older, the things
which really matter are the dreadful things our parents said really mattered: Family and
work and duty. Crap like that. ... Yeah, well, I'm finding out he was right.”
— Episode 1.12, “Reunion”
“A 20th century photographer named Man Ray said that 'An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction is motivated by necessity'. ... My quicksilver gland was created by my country's desire to have an almost unstoppable secret weapon. Another country's attempt to reproduce it was necessitated by the fact that we had it. And they didn't. It's kind of a Quicksilver gap, if you will.”
“Will Rogers once said that 'To be a hero
is about the shortest lived profession on Earth'. Robert Hobbes was a hero. He put his
life on the line many times to save many people. Many of those times were to save my life.
Bobby Hobbes died a hero. Thank you, Bobby.”
— Episode 1.13, “Cat and Mouse”
“'One nation under God...invisible'. That's how I learned the Pledge as a kid. Now that I'm grown up and work for Uncle Sam, there's another saying that makes more sense. It's from the Bible, something about 'the blind leading the blind...'”
“Hey, you remember that song, She Blinded Me With Science? Yeah, well, science blinded me, then helped return my sight a month later. That song works for me on all new levels for me now.”
“An old Chinese proverb says, ' Better to light a candle than curse the darkness'. You know, in
other words, deal with your situation, your troubles, your gland in the brain. It's good
advice, but after meeting Leila, I keep wondering... what's wrong with the darkness?”
— Episode 1.14, “Beholder”
“There's an old English proverb that says, 'It's too late to close the barn door after the horse is already gone'. Yeah well, same's true when I've already entered.”
“George Bernard Shaw said, 'My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world'.”
“Okay, I'm not a big believer in ghosts or anything supernatural for that matter. So I don't claim to be an expert at this. ... Alright, there's this old Burmese proverb that says, ' A blind man is not afraid of ghosts'. Now, in other words, being invisible isn't gonna cut it by itself. I mean, to really scare this guy, he's gotta see something.”
“Oscar Wilde
once said that 'Sometimes it takes courage to give in to temptation'. ...Well, I think I'm
gonna work on getting my courage up.”
— Episode 1.15, “Ghost of a Chance”
“A Victorian author, John Oliver Hobbes once said that 'All men are the same. They always think that something they're gonna get is better than what they've got'. Now, I think a more recent philosopher, Bobby Hobbes, said it better ......”
“You ever hear the term 'Honor amongst thieves '? That's a myth. Fear amongst thieves, maybe. Basic relationship is you stab my back, I'll stab yours. Now, if you look at it that way, Manny Merrick is a very honorable man.”
“A brilliant German guy named Schopenhauer said that 'With increased intelligence comes an increased capacity for pain'. So I guess if ignorance is bliss, then enlightenment is pure hell.”
“There's an old saying that ' Every man is a genius until he opens his mouth'. I decided to save
Hobbes the trouble... 'Nuff said.”
— Episode 1.16, “Flowers for Hobbes”
“The author of The Iliad—a guy named Homer —said that 'Sleep is the twin of death'. Now, what we were about to find out was that it could be it's partner too.”
“Like the Beatles
said—we get by with a little help from our friends.”
— Episode 1.17, “Per Chance To Dream”
“Okay, now, one of the down sides of hanging with Bobby Hobbes is that you sort of develop a sense of paranoia. ... On the other hand, like Henry Kissinger said, 'Even paranoid people have enemies'.”
“Somebody said, 'Opinions were made
to be changed — how else can we get at the truth?'”
— Episode 1.18, “Frozen in Time”
“A rebel with a cause named Susan Sontag said that 'Society needs to have an illness which becomes identified with evil'. Now, our society has more than one. To that end, I quote Sly Stallone from his seminal film, Cobra: 'Crime is a disease. I'm the cure'.”
“Three wise men known as The Beastie Boys once shouted out, 'It's time to get ill'. ... Hey, screw them.”
“A dead guy named Samuel Johnson said that 'Disease begins that equality which death completes'. I was finally about to become my brother's equal... but it seems disease had other plans for me.”
“A little old lady named Mother Theresa said, 'The biggest disease today isn't leprosy or
tuberculosis, but the feeling of being unwanted'. See, I don't have that condition.
Everybody wants a piece of me for something. But the next time I catch up with Arnaud, I'm
gonna give him exactly what he wants—a piece of my mind.”
— Episode 1.19, “Diseased”
“There's an old saying: curiosity killed the cat ... or was it the cat-burglar...?”
“They say, 'He who sups with the Devil needs a long spoon'. Yeah, well, I was making dinner reservations for two...”
“Francis Bacon , a guy who heard voices, said 'There is nothing that makes a man suspect more than to know little'. Yeah, well, right now I suspected everything, so I wanted to learn as much as I could.”
“The Bible gives this sensible advice, 'Separate thyself from thine enemies, and take heed of thy friends'. It's easy enough... if you know how to tell the two apart.”
“The Agency had put up the biggest stonewall outside of China. Yeah, so, I figured if they wouldn't talk, the archives would.”
“Tennessee Williams said, 'We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal. Un-hunh, well, maybe that's why instead of being dressed to kill she [Allianora] was dressed like an armored tank.”
“Thoreau said
that 'We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected'. That's why paranoia
can't protect you. 'Cause no matter how much you think they're out to get you... you have
no idea.”
— Episode 1.20, “The Lesser Evil”
“Greek mythology says that ' Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad'. Now, you see, I was never sure whether 'mad' meant crazy or angry. Oh well, either way, the gods were working on me pretty good right now.”
“The Official decided he wanted me to stay away from the rest of them... 'Arouse less suspicion' is how he put it. So 'V.I.P.' meant the red carpet treatment for them and Very Inconsequential Person for me.”
“As Kenny Loggins once said, 'I'm in the Danger Zone'.”
“Okay, you know that speech in Hamlet where the guy says, ah, 'Neither a borrower or lender be and to thine own self be true?' Yeah, well, see, I wasn't a borrower or a lender — I was a thief... and I hadn't been true to myself in a long, long, time.”
“You know that story about the goose that laid the golden eggs? Yeah, well, I just found her. And I was gonna squeeze her until she was all egged out.”
“Better the Arnaud you know, than the
devil you don't.”
— Episode 1.21, “Money for Nothing,” Part 1
“A lawyer named Francis
Bacon said that 'A man that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green'. Yeah, well,
sure, Arnaud messed up my life, but I almost messed it up worse by going after him. Lesson
learned.”
— Episode 1.22, “Money for Nothing,” Part 2
“I've learned alotta things since I started working with Bobby Hobbes. Like never underestimate the enemy. But as Joseph Heller once wrote, 'The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed. No matter which side he's on'.”
— Episode 1.23, “It's a Small World”
1.01 Friedrick Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900): German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture whose works include Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-92). Most famous quote: 'God is dead'. Complete quote: “What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.” from Beyond Good and Evil, “Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes,” section 153 (1886).
1.01 “No good deed goes unpunished.” by Clare Boothe Luce (1902-1987). She was an American writer who wrote several plays, including The Women (1936) and served as ambassador to Italy.
1.01 “When God wants...” commonly misattributed to Baroness Karen Blixen, but in actuality from Out of Africa (1985) , a film about her life, the screenplay of which was written by Kurt Luedtke . Baroness Karen Blixen, a Danish woman who, despairing that she would be single forever, married her lover's brother, moved out to Kenya in East Africa, ran a coffee plantation on the slopes of Kilimanjaro and later, when the plantation was bankrupt and the dream was finished, wrote books about her experiences under the name Isak Dinesan. Complete quote: “When God wants to punish you, he answers your prayers.”
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1.01 “Time flies when...” by Samuel
Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Complete quote: “
How time flies when one has fun!” from the character Vladimir, in Waiting
for Godot, p. 49, Grove Press (1954).
1.01 “Good things come...” by Violet Fane (1843-1905) (pseudonym of Lady Mary Montgomerie Lamb Singleton Currie). Taut Vent 'A Qui Sait “Ald, all things come to those who wait, I say these words to make me glad, but something answers soft and sad, they come, but often too late.”
1.01 “Memory is a luxury...” source unlocatable. May have been introduced by the show.
1.01 “What's past is
prologue” by William Shakespeare (1564-1616): English poet and
playwright, considered the greatest of all time, whose plays include historical works,
such as Richard II, comedies, including As You Like It, and tragedies,
such as Hamlet and King Lear .
Complete quote:
“She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells
from Antonio to Sebastian in The Tempest, Act ii, sc. i.
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1.02 George
Santayana (1863–1952): Spanish-born American philosopher and poet primarily
known for his theories of aesthetics, morality, and the spiritual life. Complete quote:
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
from Life of Reason, “Reason in Common Sense,” ch. 12 (1905-6).
1.02 John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63): The 35th President of the United States. Complete quote: “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” from his inaugural address, January 20, 1961, Washington, DC.
1.03 Dr. John H. Watson: Formerly employed by Army Medical Department. Companion to Sherlock Holmes, who appeared in a total of 60 stories, written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published between 1887 and 1927. Complete quote:
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.”
from “A Scandal in Bohemia”, first published in Strand Magazine, July 1891
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1.04 Lord Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930): British politician who served as prime minister (1902-05) and foreign secretary (1916-19). Complete quote: “Destiny is the scapegoat which we make responsible for all our crimes and follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible when we have no wish to strive against it.”
1.04 Doris Day (born
Doris von Kappelhoff) (1924-): Doris Day started her singing career in the 1940s and
hit it big with the million-selling “Sentimental Journey.” Her acting career
followed, and her singing career was just as hot as her acting career, and her hit from
the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock movie The Man who Knew Too Much , “Que
Sera, Sera,” won an Oscar.
Complete song:
“When i was just a little girl, / I asked my mother, 'What will i be? / Will i be pretty? / Will i be rich?' / Here's what she said to me: / ' Que Sera Sera, / what ever will be , will be; / The futures not ours to see. / Que Sera Sera, / What will be, will be' / when i grew up and fell in love, / i asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead? / will we have rainbows / day after day? / here's what my sweetheart said: / que sera, sera, / whatever wil be ,will be / the future's not ours to see. / que sera, sera, / what will be; will be / now i have children of my own / they ask their mother what will i be / will i be handsome? / will i be rich? / i tell them tenderly / que sera, sera, / whatever will be, will be; / the future's not ours to see. / que sera, sera, / what will be, will be.”
1.05 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Irish-born playwright, critic, essayist, political activist, lecturer, novelist, philosopher, revolutionary evolutionist, and the most prolific letter writer in literary history. He was a founder of the Fabian Society and won the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature. . Complete quote: “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” from Man and Superman, “The Revolutionist’s Handbook,” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 2, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).
1.06 “Don't judge a book by its cover.” Thought to have originated from Æ sop 's fable (6th century B.C.) “The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing”, then evolved into the English proverb “Judge not a book by its cover. ” and finally entered American speech in the 1920's as the form we know today. Æsop was an ancient Greek writer of fables of whom little or nothing is certainly known, including whether he actually ever existed.
1.06 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) (pseudonym of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde): Irish-born writer whose works include The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Complete quote: “It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” from Lord Henry, in The Picture of Do rian Gray, chapter one.
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1.06 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) (pseudonym of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald): American writer whose works include The Great Gatsby (1925). Complete quote:
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.”
from “The Rich Boy,” All the Sad Young Men (1926). The first line also occurs in Fitzgerald’s notebooks, published in The Crack-Up, “Notebook E” (1945), and was taken up by Hemingway in his story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936). Also see Ernest Hemingway’s comment for his riposte to Hemingway’s jibe.
1.06 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) (pseudonym of Ernest Miller Hemingway): American writer whose works include For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). He won the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature. Complete quote:
“The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, 'The very rich are different from you and me.' And how someone had said to Julian, 'Yes, they have more money.'”
from The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Esquire (New York, Aug. 1936). In its original publication, “Julian” was named as F. Scott Fitzgerald, who had written in his 1926 story “The Rich Boy”: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me” (also see F. Scott Fitzgerald’s comment).
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1.06 Willie Sutton (1901-1980)Fond of expensive clothes, Sutton was described as being an immaculate dresser. Although he was a bank robber, Sutton had the reputation of a gentleman; in fact, people present at his robberies stated he was quite polite. He was considered an innovative bank robber, and repeatedly escaped from prison. The popular quote goes: “When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton simply replied, 'Because that's where the money is.'” However, in his memoirs, Sutton confessed to never having said the famous “because that's where the money is” quote. Instead, he states: “Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life...to me the money was the chips, that's all.” from his co-authored autobiography Where the Money Was
1.07 Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745): 1st Earl of Orford. English politician who as first lord of the treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1715-17 and 1721-42) was regarded as Britain's first prime minister. “All men have their price” is commonly ascribed to Walpole, but his actual quote differs. Complete quote: “Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, 'All those men have their price.'” from Coxe: Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. iv. p. 369.
1.07 “One good turn deserves another.” May have derived from: “A good turn at need, At first or last, shall be assur’d of meed.” by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544-1590) from First Week, Sixth Day. He was a French poet. A Huguenot soldier under Henry IV, Du Bartas is known chiefly for his epic poems La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578) and the unfinished La Seconde Sepmaine (1584). In lofty verse they retell the main events of the Bible from a Protestant viewpoint.
1.07 “You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.” English proverb, according to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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1.08 Pandora (Greek Mythology): The first woman, who was bestowed upon humankind as punishment for Prometheus's theft of fire and who out of curiosity opened a box containing all human ills and released them. (Prometheus was a Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to humankind for which Zeus chained him to a rock an sent an eagle to eat his liver, which grew back daily.)
1.09 “The sky is falling, so worried the man from Qi.” by Lie Zi, Han Dynasty. Or, “Help! Help! Help! The sky is falling! I have to go tell the king!” as said by Chicken Little in The Remarkable Story of Chicken Little (Roxbury, Mass., 1840).
1.10 “The ends...” by Matthew Prior (1664-1721): English poet and diplomat known for his epigrams and light satirical verse. Often quoted as “ends”. Complete quote: “The end must justify the means” from Hans Carvel.
1.10 William Shakespeare (1564-1616): English poet and playwright, considered the greatest of all time, whose plays include historical works, such as Richard II, comedies, including As You Like It , and tragedies, such as Hamlet and King Lear. Complete quote: “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. / The evil that men do lives after them; / The good is oft interrèd with their bones.” from Mark Antony, in Julius Caesar, act 3, sc. 2. From Mark Antony’s funeral oration for Julius Caesar.
1.11 Mark Twain (1835-1910) (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens): American author whose masterpieces of humor and sarcasm include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) . Often quoted as “lonely”. Complete quote: “ Be good and you will be lonesome.” from Following the Equator (1897).
1.11 “The calm before the storm” The quote was first seen in print as “Calm continueth not long without a storm” (1576).
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1.11 “Necessity is the mother of invention” Complete quote: “Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.” by Richard Franck: Northern Memoirs (written in 1658, printed in 1694).
1.12 Charles Schulz (1922-2000) (pseudonym of Charles Monroe Schulz) : American cartoonist who created the Peanuts comic strip. Complete quote: “Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.” Linus, in Peanuts (1952).
1.12 PJ O'Rourke (1947-) (pseudonym of Patrick Jake O'Rourke): American political/social satirist, cynicist, and journalist for Rolling Stone magazine. O'Rourke is the most-frequently quoted living person in The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations.
1.13 Man Ray (1890–1976):
An American painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, as well as a photographer, Man Ray brought
his diverse techniques to bear upon one another in the attempt to create
“disturbing” objects. A tireless experimenter with photographic techniques who
participated in the Cubist, Dadaist, and Surrealist art movements, Man Ray created a new
photographic art which emphasized chance effects and surprising juxtapositions.
Complete quote:
“An original is a creation motivated by desire.
Any reproduction of an original is motivated by necessity ...
It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms.
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.”
from “Originals Graphic Multiples,” published in Objets de Mon Affection (1983). Reprinted in Neil Baldwin, Man Ray, ch. 24 (1988).
1.13 Will Rogers (1879-1935) (stage name of William Penn Adair Rogers): American humorist noted for his wry homespun commentary on society and politics. Complete quote: “Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.” from Paula McSpadden Grove (1961) The Will Rogers Book (newspaper article, 15 February 1925)
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1.14 From the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance. Complete quote: “I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
1.14 “She Blinded Me with Science”: a song by Thomas Dolby from the album Golden Age of Wireless. Dr. M. Pyke voices the “Science!” voice-overs. At the time, he was the British equivalent of the American Mr. Wizard of Mr. Wizard's world, or Bill Nye the science guy. Complete Song
“It's poetry in motion / she turned her tender eyes to me / as deep as any ocean / as sweet as any harmony / mm - but she blinded me with science / “she blinded me with science!” / and failed me in biology / When I'm dancing close to her / “blinding me with science - science!” / I can smell the chemicals / “blinding me with science - science!” / “Science!” / “Science!” / mm - but it's poetry in motion / and when she turned her eyes to me / as deep as any ocean / as sweet as any harmony mm - but she blinded me with science / and failed me in geometry / When she's dancing next to me / “blinding me with science - science!” / “Science!” / I can hear machinery / “blinding me with science - science!” / “Science!” / It's poetry in motion / and now she's making love to me / the spheres're in commotion / the elements in harmony / she blinded me with science / “she blinded me with science!” / and hit me with technology / “good heavens Miss Sakamoto - you're beautiful!”/ I - / I don't believe it! / there she goes again! / she's tidied up, and I can't find anything! / all my tubes and wires / and careful notes / and antiquated notions / but! - it's poetry in motion / and when she turned her eyes to me / as deep as any ocean / as sweet as any harmony / mm - but she blinded me with science / “she blinded me with - with science!” / she blinded me with -”
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1.14 Chinese proverb: Commonly attributed to Confucius (551-479 BC), a well-known leader in philosophy and he also coined many proverbs and developed theories about the law, life, and the government. His Analects contain a collection of his sayings. He sometimes went by the names Kong Zi though he was born Kong Qiu. Complete quote: “Better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.”
1.15 English proverb: Complete quote: “ To close the stable/barn door after the horse has bolted/been stolen.” dates back to Medieval Latin.
1.15 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Irish-born playwright, critic, essayist, political activist, lecturer, novelist, philosopher, revolutionary evolutionist, and the most prolific letter writer in literary history. He was a founder of the Fabian Society and won the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature. Complete quote: “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.” (First produced in 1904) From the character Father Keegan, in John Bull’s Other Island, act 2, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 2, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).
1.15 “A blind man is not afraid of ghosts.” Burmese proverbs are very unique from the others. Some Burmese proverbs are influenced by the very rich cultural values and the strong belief of Buddhism.
1.15 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) (pseudonym of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde): Irish-born writer whose works include The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Complete quote: “Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.” from the character Sir Robert Chiltern, in An Ideal Husband, act 2. Also, To Lord Goring; on the same theme, Wilde wrote, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 2:To Lord Goring; on the same theme, Wilde wrote, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 2: “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
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1.16 John Oliver Hobbes (1867-1906) (pseudonym of Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie): she was an American-born English novelist and dramatist. Her best-known works were The School for Saints and its sequel Robert Orange Mrs. Craigie loved the theater and wrote plays as well as novels. Exact quote unlocatable, but similar sentiment found in: “Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.”
1.16 “Honor amongst thieves” the notion first appeared in print in Plato's Republic, book 1 (336-354 BC). Socrates argues against Thrasymachus’s contention that the more powerful the city is, the more unjust it will be. Socrates states that for anything to become accomplished, there must be cooperation even among the least trustworthy: there must be honor amongst thieves.
1.16 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860): German philosopher whose works include The World as Will and Representation (1819). Complete quote: “Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.” from “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life,” footnote, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851).
1.16 “Every man is a genius...” Anonymous author.
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1.17 Homer (~850 B.C.): Greek epic poet and the traditional author of the Iliad and the Odyssey . Complete quote “Sleep is the twin of Death.” Similar theme also appears in the Iliad: “ There she [Venus] met Sleep, own brother to Death, and caught him by the hand, saying, 'Sleep, you who lord it alike over mortals and immortals, if you ever did me a service in times past, do one for me now, and I shall be grateful to you ever after.'”
1.17 Beatles (1962-1970): A former British pop group comprising John Lennon, Ringo Star, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison whose impact was unprecedented in rock music and continues to influence it today. Complete song:
“A little help from my friends / What would you think if I sang out of tune, / Would you stand up and walk out on me. / Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song, / And I'll try not to sing out of key. / I get by with a little help from my friends, / I get high with a little help from my friends, / Going to try with a little help from my friends. / What do I do when my love is away. / (Does it worry you to be alone) / How do I feel by the end of the day / (Are you sad because you're on your own) / No I get by with a little help from my friends, / Do you need anybody, / I need somebody to love. / Could it be anybody / I want somebody to love. / Would you believe in a love at first sight, / Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time. / What do you see when you turn out the light, / I can't tell you, but I know it's mine. / Oh I get by with a little help from my friends, / Do you need anybody, / I just need somebody to love, / Could it be anybody, / I want somebody to love. / I get by with a little help from my friends, / Yes I get by with a little help from my friends, / With a little help from my friends.”
A Little Help From My Friends from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Lennon/McCartney )
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1.18 Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923-): German-born American diplomat (naturalized in 1943) who was U.S. secretary of state (1973-77) and shared the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize. At present (2002), Dr. Kissinger is chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. Complete quote: “Even a paranoid has some real enemies.” from Newsweek 13 Jun 83
1.18 “Opinions were meant...” by Lord George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale. A British poet whose works include Childe Harold (1812-18) and Don Juan (1819-24) . Complete quote: “Opinions are made to be changed—or how is truth to be got at?” from a letter, May 9, 1817, to publisher John Murray. Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 5, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1973-1981).
1.19 Susan Sontag (1933-): American writer noted especially for her essays in Against Interpretation (1966) . Complete quote: “Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its 'victims'.” from U.S. essayist. AIDS and Its Metaphors, ch. 1 (1989).
1.19 Sylvester Stallone has established worldwide recognition as an actor, writer, producer and director since he wrote and starred in Rocky which won the Academy Award in 1976 for Best Picture. Complete quote: “You're a disease. I'm the cure.” as said by Lt. Marion Cobretti -The Cobra. Movie tagline: “If crime is the disease, Cobra's the cure.”
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1.19 The Beastie Boys: As the first White rap group of any importance, the Beastie Boys received the scorn of critics and strident hip-hop musicians, who accused them of cultural pirating, especially since they began as a hardcore punk group in 1981. They gained respect and returned to the charts with 1992's Check Your Head, where they played their own instruments. Officially, the Beastie Boys are Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, and Adam Yauch. The original line-up was Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, Kate Schellenbach (who has since gone on to form Luscious Jackson), and John Berry. Complete rap:
“I'm not the type of person who likes to waste my time / And when I'm on the mic - I just say my rhymes / Because I'm out on bail - the check is in the mail / They can sentence me to life - but I won't go to jail / I'm cool calm collected - from class I was ejected / Just me, Mike D., and M.C.A. - we're rarely disrespected / I got all the time that I need to kill / What's the time? - it's time to get ill / You been fully captivated by that funky ass bass / Your girlfriend screams when M.C.A.'s in the place / He stumbles in the room with the Chivas in his hand / Cold chillin' on the spot at the microphone stand / I'd have the pedal to the metal if I had a car / But I'm chiller with the Miller - cold coolin' at the bar / I can drink a quart of Monkey and still stand still / What's the time? - it's time to get ill / *Lookin' at my Gucci, it's about that time* / Went outside my house - I went down to the deli / I spent my last dime to refill my fat belly / I got rhymes galime - I got rhymes galilla / And I got more rhymes than Phyllis Diller / M.C.A. takes a stand - man you're in command / Homeboy, turn it out and don't give a damn / My name is M.C.A. - I've got a license to kill / What's the time? - it's time to get ill / *I'm Mr. Ed. The famous Mr. Ed* / Riding down the block with my box in my hand / Today I feel like chillin' just as chill as I can / Coolin' on the corner with a forty of O.E. / 'Cause me and M.C.A. we're down with Mike D. / When I run a jam - I don't give a damn / When I'm throwing bass - I say, “Thank you ma'am.” / Fuel injected, rhyme connected - running things / I'm the King Adrock and I'm the king of all kings / I'm looking for a spot - things are gettin' hot / I'm M.C.A., I'm here to stay - and you sir, are not / Oh no, it could not be - it's such a sight to see / It's such a trip - you're on my tip so listen to Mike D. / My work is my play - cause I'm playing when I work / My name's Mike D., as you can see and I can do the jerk / M.C.A., Adrock, Mike D. - it's chill / What's the time? - it's time to get ill.”
from Licensed To Ill 1986, Def Jam Def Jam 4500621(Nov 1991), Produced by Rick Rubin/Beastie Boys
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1.19 Samuel Johnson, “Dr. Johnson” (1709-84): British writer and lexicographer who wrote Dictionary of the English Language (1755) and Lives of the Poets (1779-81). Complete quote: “Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.” from Rambler, no. 48 (London, Sept. 1, 1750).
1.19 Mother Teresa (1910-1997) (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu): Albanian-born Indian nun who won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. At 18 years of age, she left Albania to become a Catholic nun and took the Christian name Teresa for the Little Teresa of Lisieux. She was sent to Calcutta to teach, saw the abject poverty and fought Rome for permission to leave the order and live amongst and serve the poor. Her determination and resourcefulness often became favorites of the media: when presented with the gift of a limousine by the Pope, she sold it to fund her leper colony. Complete quote: “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” as quoted in Observer (London, Oct. 3, 1971).
1.20 “Curiosity killed the cat”: English proverb. The expression is a corruption of “care killed the cat. ” This comes from the old saying that though a cat is said to have nine lives, “care will wear them out.” The change came about because a spiteful or backbiting woman was called a 'cat' (hence, 'catty') and women were supposed to be notoriously curious. Therefore, more in hope than belief, “curiosity will kill the cat .”
1.20 “He who sups with the devil...” different forms have appeared in print. “Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone, That shall eat with a fend.” from Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) on Line 10916 in the Columbia Encyclopedia. “Hee must have a long spoon, shall eat with the devill.” from John Heywood (1497?–1580?) in Proverbes, part ii. chap v. “He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil .” by :William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Comedy of Errors, act iv. sc. 3.
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1.20 Francis Bacon (1561-1626): 1st Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. English Philosopher and essayist who proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method. Complete quote: “There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.” from Of Suspicion, Essays (1597-1625).
1.20 Bible: the sacred scriptures of Christians comprising the Old Testament and the New Testament. Complete quote: “Separate thyself from thine enemies, and take heed of thy friends.” from Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 6:13. The Apocrypha comprise books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate. They are considered apocryphal in most Christian churches, but they are accepted as canonical in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, and the Armenian and the Ethiopian Oriental Orthodox Churches.
1.20 Tennessee Williams (1911-83) (pseudonym of Thomas Lainer Williams): American playwright whose works include A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). Complete quote: “We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.” from character Marguerite Gautier, in Camino Real, Block 10 (1953).
1.20 Henry David Thoreau (1817-62): American philosopher, naturalist and author whose works include “Civil Disobedience” (1849) and Walden (1854). Complete quote: “There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.” from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 294, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
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1.21 “Whom the gods...”complete quote: “Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat” (Latin. Whom God wishes to destroy he first deprives of reason). The author of this saying is unknown. Barnes erroneously ascribes it to the Greek Euripides. First arrives in English print as: “For those whom God to ruin has design’d, / He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.” by John Dryden (1631-1700) from The Hind and the Panther. Part iii. Line 2387.
1.21 Kenny Loggins (1948-): Pop singer who became phenomenally popular during the 1980's, doing movie soundtrack themes such as “Footloose” from the movie Footloose starring Kevin Bacon, “Danger Zone” from the Tom Cruise film Top Gun, and “I'm Alright” from Caddyshack starring Bill Murray, among others. Complete song:
“Revvin' up your engine / Listen to her howlin' roar / Metal under tension / Beggin' you to touch / and go / Highway to the Danger Zone / Ride into the Danger Zone / Headin' into twilight / Spreadin' out her wings tonight / She got you jumpin' off the track / And shovin' into overdrive / Highway to the Danger Zone / I'll take you / Right into the Danger Zone / You'll never say hello to you / Until you get it on the red line overload / You'll never know what you can do / Until you get it up as high as you can go / Out along the edges / Always where I burn to be / The further on the edge / The hotter the intensity / Highway to the Danger Zone / Gonna take you / Right into the Danger Zone / Highway to the Danger Zone”
from Danger Zone, from the Top Gun soundtrack, 1986.
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1.21 William
Shakespeare (1564-1616): English poet and playwright, considered the greatest of all
time, whose plays include historical works, such as Richard II, comedies,
including As You Like It , and tragedies, such as Hamlet and King
Lear.
Complete quote:
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
from Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. From Polonius to Laertes.
1.21 “Goose that laid the golden eggs” from Æsop 's fables. Æ sop was an ancient Greek writer of fables of whom little or nothing is certainly known, including whether he actually ever existed. Complete story:
“One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him. But he took it home on second thoughts, and soon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold. Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs. As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.”
1.21 “Better the Arnaud you know” from “Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.” first appears in print attributed to Erasmus (c. 1466–1536), Dutch humanist. In Proverbs or Adages of Erasmus, ed. Richard Taverner (1545).
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1.22 Francis Bacon (1561-1626): 1st Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. English philosopher, statesman and essayist who proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method. Complete quote “A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.” from “Of Revenge,” Essays (1597-1625).
1.23 Joseph Heller (1923-1999):
an American writer, who gained world fame with his satirical, anti-war novel CATCH-22 (1961),
set in the World War II Italy. The book was partly based on Heller's own experiences and
influenced Robert Altman's comedy M*A*S*H, and the subsequent long-running TV series, set
in the Korean War. The phrase “catch-22” has entered the English language to
signify an individual's entrapment in a no-win situation, particularly one created by an
institutional regulation. Quote in context:
Yossarian says, “You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive.”
“Exactly,” Clevinger snapped smugly. “And which do you think is more important?”
“To whom?” Yossarian shot back. “It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
“I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy.”
“The enemy,” retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, “is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”
from Captain JohnYossarian, an Assyrian wise-ass bombardier
to Clevinger, who knew everything, “one of those people with lots of intelligence but
no brains.”
