Éamon de Valera (1882–1975) 3rd President of Ireland
On "The Troubles" in Ireland.
Judging Dev (2007)
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@YuraZhum, на цитатах с 26 июля 2022 г.Éamon de Valera (1882–1975) 3rd President of Ireland
(January 1918).
I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)
“This is the thing that I was born to do.”
Samuel Daniel книга Musophilus
Musophilus (1599), Stanza 100, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.”
Samuel Daniel книга Musophilus
Musophilus (1599), Stanza 57, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
To look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) Poet and historian
History of the Civil War (1595), Book iv, Stanza 84, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made", Edmund Waller, Verses upon his Divine Poesy.
“Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) Poet and historian
To the Countess of Cumberland. Stanza 12, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A friendship that can be ended / didn't ever start”
Mellin de Saint-Gelais (1495–1558) French poet
Добавить примечание: Amitié qui se peut finir / Ne fut jamais bien commencée
Источник: Oeuvres poétiques
“No bird can ever fly / like a heart can rise so high”
Mellin de Saint-Gelais (1495–1558) French poet
Добавить примечание: Il n'est oiseau qui sût voler / Si haut comme un coeur peut aller
Источник: Quatrains, LXXXIV
“So you must always remember / that time ends the beauty”
Mellin de Saint-Gelais (1495–1558) French poet
Добавить примечание: Ainsi vous doit-il souvenir / Que le temps finit la beauté
Источник: Oeuvres poétiques
“It's better to act and to regret / Than to regret not to have acted”
Mellin de Saint-Gelais (1495–1558) French poet
Добавить примечание: Mieux vaut faire, et se repentir / Que se repentir, et rien faire
Источник: Quatrains, LXXVIII
Peter Barlow (mathematician) (1776–1862) British mathematician and physicist
[Peter Barlow, Second report addressed to the directors and proprietors of the London and Birmingham Railway company, founded on an inspection of, and experiments made on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, B. Fellowes, 1835, 4]
“Opinions derived from long experience are exceedingly valuable”
Peter Barlow (mathematician) (1776–1862) British mathematician and physicist
Контексте: Opinions derived from long experience are exceedingly valuable, and outweigh all others, while they are consistent with facts and with each other; but they are worse than useless when they lead, as in this instance, to directly opposite opinions.
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859–1947) British Baron and politician
Fabian Essays in Socialism – The Basis of Socialism – Historic http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Shaw/shwFS1.html#The%20Basis%20of%20Socialism,%20Historic,%20by%20Sidney%20Webb, The New Synthesis, I.1.47. Edited by George Bernard Shaw (1889)
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield книга Industrial Democracy
Industrial Democracy, written with Beatrice Webb (1902) 842
Démosthenés (-384–-322 BC) ancient greek statesman and orator
As quoted in Dictionary of foreign phrases and classical quotations (1908) by Hugh Percy Jones, p. 140
Démosthenés (-384–-322 BC) ancient greek statesman and orator
As quoted in Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 1 (1940), p. 472
“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.”
Démosthenés (-384–-322 BC) ancient greek statesman and orator
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 455.
