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Morris West

Morris Langlo West (26 April 1916 – 9 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright.

The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963)

 * It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price…. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover, and yet demand no easy return of love. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

The Heretic (1968)

 * A play in three acts on the arrest, imprisonment, and trials of Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake in 1600.

 * '''There are a few of us — madmen all! — who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life… We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting —

 * No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!"

 * Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!'''

 * If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

 * O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums.

 * I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!

 * To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrites, to be a spectacle for animals in human masks!

 * You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.

 * I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men.

 * Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, "You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?" No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then — No! I will not recant.

The Clowns of God (1981)

 * Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things. You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
 * Author's Note (at the beginning of the novel)

 * "Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
 * Ch. II (ellipses in original)
 * This statement begins with a quotation from Horace, Odes, Book I, Ode ix, line 13.

The World Is Made of Glass (1983)

 * That's what faith is about — living with paradox.
 * London: Coronet Books, 1984, p. 78

 * It doesn't matter what we believe about God. It's what He knows about us.
 * London: Coronet Books, 1984, p. 316
 * The speaker is an eighty-year-old Mother Superior explaining why she allowed the burial in the convent cemetery of a foreign woman, a collaborator in a charitable enterprise, who was an unbeliever.

Cassidy (1986)

 * They're a migratory tribe, so you find them everywhere […] They're hardy, longevitous, resistant to infection by disease or new ideas, little modified by regional influences. The accent drifts a bit, maybe. The dialect adapts itself to the local patois: but that's a chameleon's trick: protective colouring, no more. The rest of it, the sinuous mind, the easy passion, the leery eye, the ready smile, the fine, swaggering, billycock-and-shillelagh walk, the flexible moralities, the bel canto oratory, the black bilious angers, these never change.
 * Martin Gregory in Ch. 1 (on Irish politicians)

 * We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.
 * Marius Melville in Ch. 17

Masterclass (1988)

 * After a death, you eat and drink and remember the good things and try to laugh again. Grief profits no one, least of all the departed, who are quit of it for ever.
 * Niccoló Tolentino in Ch. 1

 * In Switzerland everything that is not forbidden is legal.
 * Gisela Mundt in Ch. 10

 * In a marriage you need 'compatibility of conscience'.
 * Gisela Mundt in Ch. 13

Lazarus (1990)

 * The longer he practised his craft, the more conscious he became of the dynamic of language, of speech and writing as events in themselves. The simplest and most obvious proposition, stated in the most elementary language, could so mutate itself in the mind of the reader that it could express the opposite of what the writer had intended. What he wrote as evidence for the defence could hang the man he was defending.
 * Reflection of Nicol Peters, journalist, in Ch. III

 * I once asked a distinguished biologist to explain to me the genetic imprint, the famous double helix which differentiates one being from another. He called it "the graffito of God", because it can never be erased. All other imprints — of memory, environment, experience — he called "human graffiti".
 * Pope Leo XIV in Ch. XV

The Ringmaster (1991)

 * The Ringmaster. London: Heinemann, 1991

 * In politics there is no morality anyway. The nature of the game precludes it. A politician's career depends upon the fickle wind of public opinion. He is forced to trim his conscience to catch every shift of the breeze.
 * Gil Langton in Ch. 3, p. 38

 * Every tribe in the world had its own version of the scapegoat, marked for exile or persecution when the homefolk needed to purge themselves of their own guilts.
 * Gil Langton in Ch. 3, p. 49

 * When friends do business, there is no need of contracts. Unfortunately, there are no friends in business.
 * Kenji Tanaka quoting a saying he heard from a (presumably fictitious) "very modern Zen master" in Ch. 13, p. 232

 * Of all the animals in creation, politicians have the shortest memories.
 * Pavel Laszlo in Ch. 15, p. 260

 * You are all caught in the current of history whose headwaters rise in the dark mountains of the past. You cannot change it; you survive and help others to survive by adapting to it.
 * Siri (Khun Sirinart, a Thai businesswoman) in Ch. 15, p. 70

 * Religion is the good you do in the bad times.
 * Gil Langton's late mother, cited twice in Ch. 17, pp. 298 and 300

 * Nothing is permanent. Tomorrow the caravan moves on. The wheels turn. The flowers bloom and die. The good we do in bad times is a seed planted for others to harvest. Evil is a dark hole in creation, where good may once have flourished, where it may take root again one starlit night, when the wounded world murmurs in a healing sleep.
 * Ch. 17, p. 309 (the concluding words of the novel); "the same age-old message to an unheeding world" imagined by Gil Langton as being spoken by the small bronze statue of a smiling Buddha in a shrine above the bed where he and Siri have just made love.

The Lovers (1993)

 * [W]hen you get to Rome you have two other rules to learn: never assume that what you see is what is; never believe that what you're told is the whole truth. It's only when you've grasped that — and the Romans know you've grasped it — that you begin to win respect and make progress.
 * Cardinal Francis Spellman in Book 1. London: Mandarin, 1993, p. 67

 * My father used to say that we surrendered our youth to purchase wisdom. What he never told me was how badly we get cheated on the exchange rate!
 * Prince Alessandro Farnese di Mongrifone in Book 1. London: Mandarin, 1993, p. 176

Eminence (1998)

 * Rossini was gentle with her. "In one way or another,we all have to cope with the essential solitude of being human, whether we're celibate or married." "If you're a good person, doesn't God fill your loneliness?" "He fills it, I think, with a divine discontent."
 * Cardinal Luca Rossini and his daughter Luisa Ortega in Ch. 7

 * The prevalence of evil is the darkest and most frightening mystery of the universe.
 * Cardinal Luca Rossini in Ch. 8

The Last Confession (2000)

 * I can write no more today. The contemplation of my sorry state has reduced me to so deep a melancholy that I contemplate opening my wrist like Petronius Arbiter and lapsing quietly into oblivion. Unlike Petronius, however, I shall have neither the sound of music nor the gentle talk of friends. I still have time to choose a better moment — besides, who knows to what nightmares I might awake.
 * Last lines which West had written for his unfinished work The Last Confession, about the last days of Giordano Bruno.

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John Heywood

 John Heywood (1497–1580) was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. He fled England for the Low Countries to avoid persecution as a Catholic.

Quotes

 * The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
 * Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
 * Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.
 * The Green Willow; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Proverbs (1546)
Heywood did not invent what he calls "our common plaine pithie Proverbs olde." Rather, he collected and contextualized them: Remembering and considering what the pith is, That by remembrance of these proverbs may grow. In this tale, erst talked with a friend, I show As many of them as we could fitly find Falling to purpose, that might fall in mind.
 * … I write for this
 * Preface

Original orthography from the Spenser Society reprint of the 1562 edition ([http://books.google.com/books?id=3ugWMhRUEm8C ''The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562)''], 1867, Manchester: Charles Simms and Co.)

 * Beware of, Had I wist.
 * Part I, chapter 2.

Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.'' Show after wedding, that haste makes waste.
 * ''Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,
 * Some things that provoke young men to wed in haste,
 * Part I, chapter 2.

Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde. And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele, Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.'' Than perceive they well, hot love soon cold. And when hasty witless mirth is mated well, Good to be merry and wise, they think and feel.
 * ''And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde,
 * And once their hasty heat a little controlled,
 * Part I, chapter 2.

 * The more hast the lesse speede.
 * The more haste the less speed.
 * Part I, chapter 2.

 * Beaten with his owne rod.
 * Part I, chapter 2.

 * Looke or ye leape.
 * Look ere ye leap.
 * Look before you leap.
 * Part I, chapter 2.

Whan he would, he shall haue nay.'' When he would, he shall have nay.
 * ''He that will not whan he may,
 * He that will not when he may,
 * Part I, chapter 3.

And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.'' And never shall I to like riches aspire.
 * ''Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire,
 * Then farewell riches, the fat is in the fire,
 * Part I, chapter 3.

Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.'' Take time when time comes, lest time steal away.
 * ''Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say,
 * When the sun shines make hay, which is to say,
 * Part I, chapter 3.

 * The tide tarrieth no man.
 * Part I, chapter 3.

Than catche and holde while I may, fast binde fast finde.'' Than catch and hold while I may, fast bind fast find.
 * ''Time is tickell, and out of sight out of minde.
 * Time is fickle, and out of sight out of mind.
 * Part I, chapter 3.

There shall steppe in other men, and catche the burdes, And by long time lost in many vayne wurdes.'' There shall step in other men, and catch the birds, And by long time lost in many vain words.
 * ''And while I at length debate and beate the bushe,
 * And while I at length debate and beat the bush,
 * Part I, chapter 3.

And hangyng likewise.'' And hanging likewise.
 * ''Weddyng is desteny,
 * Wedding is destiny,
 * Part I, chapter 3.

 * When the iron is hot, strike.
 * Part I, chapter 3.

 * While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.
 * Part I, chapter 3.

 * So many heads so many wits.
 * Part I, chapter 3.

 * Happy man, happy dole.
 * Part I, chapter 3.

 * A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.
 * A hard beginning makes a good ending.
 * Part I, chapter 4.

 * Like will to like.
 * Part I, chapter 4.

And kyll feare, when the sky falth we shall haue larks.'' And kill fear, when the sky falls we shall have larks.
 * ''That muche is my bowe bent to shoote at these marks,
 * That much is my bow bent to shoot at these marks,
 * Part I, chapter 4.

Nothing is impossible to a willyng hart, And will maie wyn my herte, herein to consent, To take all thinges as it cometh, and be content.'' Nothing is impossible to a willing heart, And will may win my heart, herein to consent, To take all things as it comes, and be content.
 * ''Who hopeth in Gods helpe, his helpe can not starte:
 * Who hopes in God's help, his help can not start:
 * Part I, chapter 4.

Hold their noses to grinstone, and syt on theyr skurtis.'' Hold their noses to grindstone, and sit on their skirts.
 * ''And also I shall to reueng former hurtis,
 * And also I shall to revenge former hurts,
 * Part I, chapter 5.

All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey. And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre, Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.'' All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.
 * ''When all candels be out, all cats be grey,
 * When all candles are out, all cats are grey,
 * Part I, chapter 5.

 * The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.
 * The nearer to the church, the farther from God.
 * Part I, chapter 9.

It hurteth not the tounge to geue fayre wurdis. The rough net is not the best catcher of Burdis. Sense ye can nought wyn, if ye can not please, Best is to suffre: For of sufferance comth ease.'' It hurts not the tongue to give faire words. The rough net is not the best catcher of Birds. Since you can not win, if you can not please, Best is to suffer: For of sufferance comes ease.
 * ''... Better is to boow then breake.
 * … Better is to bow than break.
 * Part I, chapter 9.

 * Two heddis are better then one.
 * Two heads are better than one.
 * Part I, chapter 9.

 * Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
 * Part I, ch 9.

And when the meale mouth hath woon the bottome of your stomake, than will the pickthanke it tell To your most enmies, you to bye and fell. To tell tales out of schoole, that is hir great lust. Looke what she knowth, blab it wist, out it must.'' And when the mealy mouth has won the bottom of your stomach, then will the pickthank it tell To your most enemies, you to buy and sell. To tell tales out of school, that is her great lust. Look what she knows, blab it wist, out it must.
 * ''She speaketh as she would créepe into your bosome.
 * She speaks as she would creep into your bosom.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * To hold with the hare and run with the hound.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

Ye Ales, of a good begynnyng comth a good end.'' Yes Ales, of a good beginning comes a good end.
 * ''Well aunt (quoth Ales) all is well that endes well.
 * Well aunt, said Ales, all is well that ends well.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

Be they done in due tyme, to late, or to soone, But better late than neuer to repent this, To late (quoth my aunt) this repentance showd is, Whan the stéede is stolne shut the stable durre.'' Be they done in due time, too late, or too soon, But better late than never to repent this, To late, said my aunt, this repentance shown is, When the steed is stolen shut the stable door.
 * ''True (quoth Ales) thinges doone can not be vndoone,
 * True, said Ales, things done can not be undone,
 * Part I, chapter 10
 * "Better late than never" is recorded earlier by Livy as Potius sero quam numquam. (book IV, sec. 23).

 * Ill wéede growth fast.
 * Ill weed grows fast.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

… beggers should be no choosers.'' … beggars should be not choosers.
 * ''... Be they wynners or loosers,
 * … Be they winners or loosers,
 * Part I, chapter 10.

At rouers, to rob Peter and paie Poule.'' At rovers, to rob Peter and pay Paul.
 * ''Lyke a pyckpurs pilgrim, ye prie and ye proule
 * Like a pickpurse pilgrim, you pry and you prowl
 * Part I, chapter 11.

but he can not make him drinke without he will.'' but he can not make him drink without he will.
 * ''A man maie well bring a horse to the water,
 * A man may well bring a horse to the water,
 * Part I, chapter 11.

Till it was finist, as some say, full faire.'' Till it was finished, as some say, full fair.
 * ''Rome was not built in one daie (quoth he) and yet stood
 * Rome was not built in one day, said he, and yet stood
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Children learne to créepe er they can learne to go.
 * Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.'' For better is half a loaf than no bread.
 * ''Throw no gyft agayne at the geuers head,
 * Throw no gift again at the giver's head,
 * Part I, chapter 11.

Vnknowne vnkyst. it is loste that is vnsought. As good séeke nought (quoth I) as seeke and finde nought.'' Unknown unkissed. it is lost that is unsought. As good seek nought, said I, as seek and find naught.
 * ''Nought venter nought haue. spare to speake spare to spéede.
 * Naught venture naught have. spare to speak spare to speed.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Children and fooles can not ly.
 * Children and fools cannot lie.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?'' With shops full of shoes all her life?
 * ''Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,
 * Who is worse shod, than the shoemakers wife,
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Ka me, ka the, one good tourne askth an other.
 * Serve me, serve thee, one good turn asks another.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.
 * A hair of the dog that bit us last night.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

A fréende is neuer knoen tyll a man haue néede.'' A friend is never known till a man have need.
 * ''Proue thy fréende er thou haue néede, but in déede
 * Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * All thing is the woorse for the wearing.
 * Part II, chapter 1.

 * A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.
 * A woman has nine lives like a cat.
 * Part II, chapter 4.

 * A penny for your thought.
 * Part II, chapter 4.

 * Ye can not sée the wood for trées.
 * You cannot see the wood for trees.
 * Part II, chapter 4.

And ye taunt me tyt ouer thumb (quoth shée) Sens tyt for tat (quoth I) on euen hand is set.'' And you taunt me tit over thumb, said she. Since tit for tat, said I, on even hand is set.
 * ''Marke ye, how she hitteth me on the thombis (quoth hée)
 * Mark you, how she hits me on the thumbs, said he.
 * Part II, chapter 4.

 * Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.
 * Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Many handis make light warke.
 * Many hands make light work.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * There is no fyre without some smoke.
 * There is no fire without some smoke.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Set the cart before the hors.
 * Set the cart before the horse.
 * Part II, chapter 7.

Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)'' You, but the fewer the better fare, said he.
 * ''The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée
 * The more the merrier, we all day hear and see
 * Part II, chapter 7.

An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng.''
 * ''It is better to be
 * It is better to be An old man's darling than a young man's warling.
 * Part II, chapter 7.

Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese.'' Or think, that the moon is made of green cheese.
 * ''Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue
 * You set circumstances to make me believe
 * Part II, chapter 7.

I know on which syde my bread is buttred. But there will no butter cleaue on my breade. And on my bread any butter to be spreade. Euery promise that thou therin dost vtter, Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.'' I know on which side my bread is buttered. But there will no butter cleave on my bread. And on my bread any butter to be spread. Every promise that you therein do utter, Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.
 * ''Yes yes (quoth she) for all those wyse woordis vttred,
 * Yes yes, said she, for all those wise words uttered,
 * Part II, chapter 7.

 * What man, loue me, loue me dog.
 * What man love me, love my dog.
 * Part II, chapter 9
 * Recorded in the 11th century by Bernard of Clairvaux in one of his sermons as a common proverb.

 * An yll wynde that blowth no man to good.
 * An ill wind that blows no man to good.
 * Part II, chapter 9.

 * For whan I gaue you an ynche, ye tooke an ell.
 * For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.
 * Part II, chapter 9.

 * Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?
 * Would you both eat your cake, and have your cake?
 * Part II, chapter 9.

Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.'' Every man for himself, and God for us all.
 * ''Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.
 * Pray and shift each one for himself, as he can.
 * Part II, chapter 9.

Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in, Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.'' Yet snatch you at the poke, that the pig is in, Not for the poke, but the pig good cheap to win.
 * ''Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,
 * Though you love not to buy the pig in the poke,
 * Part II, chapter 9.

 * This hitteth the nayle on the hed.
 * This hits the nail on the head.
 * Part II, chapter 11.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.
 * Part I, chapter 4.

 * More frayd then hurt.
 * Part I, chapter 4.

 * Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
 * Part I, chapter 4.

 * The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
 * Part I, chapter 5.

 * Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
 * Part I, chapter 5.

 * Rule the rost.
 * Part I, chapter 5.

 * Better to give then to take.
 * Part I, chapter 5.

 * No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
 * Part I, chapter 5.

 * I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
 * Part I, chapter 6.

 * A sleveless errand.
 * Part I, chapter 7.

 * We both be at our wittes end.
 * Part I, chapter 8.

 * Reckeners without their host must recken twice.
 * Part I, chapter 8.

 * A day after the faire.
 * Part I, chapter 8.

 * Cut my cote after my cloth.
 * Part I, chapter 8.

 * Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.
 * Part I, chapter 9.

 * A short horse is soone currid.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * Shee had seene far in a milstone.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * Better late than never.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * Pryde will have a fall; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * Ill weede growth fast.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * It is a deere collop That is cut out of th' owne flesh.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * Beggars should be no choosers.
 * Part I, chapter 10.

 * Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * To robbe Peter and pay Poule.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * A man may well bring a horse to the water, But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Rome was not built in one day.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Yee have many strings to your bowe.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Many small make a great.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Nought venter nought have.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Children and fooles cannot lye.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Set all at sixe and seven.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * All is fish that comth to net.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * One good turne asketh another.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * By hooke or crooke.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * She frieth in her owne grease.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night.
 * Part I, chapter 11.

 * This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
 * Part II, chapter 1.

 * New brome swepth cleene.
 * Part II, chapter 1.

 * Burnt child fire dredth.
 * Part II, chapter 2.

 * All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.
 * Part II, chapter 2.

 * Love me litle, love me long.
 * Part II, chapter 2.

 * A fooles bolt is soone shot.
 * Part II, chapter 3.

 * A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
 * Part II, chapter 4.

 * A peny for your thought.
 * Part II, chapter 4.

 * You stand in your owne light.
 * Part II, chapter 4.

 * Though chaunge be no robbry.
 * Part II, chapter 4.

 * Might have gone further and have fared worse.
 * Part II, chapter 4.

 * The grey mare is the better horse.
 * Part II, chapter 4.

 * Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Small pitchers have wyde eares.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Many hands make light warke.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * There is no fire without some smoke.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * One swallow maketh not summer.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * A cat may looke on a King.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Have yee him on the hip.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Time trieth troth in every doubt.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Mad as a march hare.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of.
 * Part II, chapter 5.

 * He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive.
 * Part II, chapter 7.

 * Set the cart before the horse.
 * Part II, chapter 7.

 * The moe the merrier.
 * Part II, chapter 7.

 * To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.
 * Part II, chapter 7.

 * It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
 * Part II, chapter 7.

 * Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
 * Part II, chapter 7.

 * The moone is made of a greene cheese.
 * Part II, chapter 7.

 * I know on which side my bread is buttred.
 * Part II, chapter 7.

 * It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
 * Part II, chapter 8.

 * Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee That wilfully will neither heare nor see?
 * Part II, chapter 9.

 * The wrong sow by th' eare.
 * Part II, chapter 9.

 * Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.
 * Part II, chapter 9.

 * Enough is as good as a feast.
 * Part II, chapter 11.

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John Ashcroft

John David Ashcroft (born 9 May 1942) was the 79th Attorney General of the United States; he is now a federal lobbyist.

Quotes

 * Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
 * Bob Jones University commencement (8 May 1999)

 * Since Tuesday the Justice Department has received reports of violence and threats of violence against Arab-Americans and other Americans of Middle Eastern and South Asian descents. We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national origin. Such reports of violence and threats are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated.
 * "Excerpt from remarks of Attorney General John Ashcroft" (13 September 2001)

 * Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.
 * As quoted in an interview with Cal Thomas (November 2001), he later indicated that the remarks "do not accurately reflect what I believe I said", as quoted in "Ashcroft Invokes Religion In U.S. War on Terrorism" in The Washington Post (20 February 2002)

 * To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil.
 * Testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (6 December 2001)

 * The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.
 * Statement during a discussion with the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee in June 2003, as quoted in "Ashcroft wants powers expanded to fight terror" in The Washington Times (6 June 2003)

 * The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
 * Resignation letter to President George W. Bush, dated (2 November 2004)

 * (Allegedly) Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.
 * On senior Bush officials discussing specific torture techniques, as quoted in "Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'" at ABC News (9 April 9 2008)

 * I'm trying to think of all the reasons that are appropriate for me to refuse to answer that question.
 * Response to a question from the House Judiciary Committee, which held a hearing to investigate interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay (July 2008)

Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)

 * Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.
 * p. 11

 * I was deeply grieved and suddenly depleted by a draining weariness. This day had been a nightmare, and I had not yet been asleep.
 * p. 12

 * My family has never suggested to me that my identity or value to them depended on my station in life. I knew that they did not consider me any more or less valuable because I held some political office. They valued me as a husband and father, whether or not I won an election. Nor did they regard holding office on Capitol Hill or in the Missouri statehouse as the epitome of success. Quite the contrary, my family had endured numerous personal sacrifices because of my public positions.
 * p. 30

 * A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.
 * p. 31

 * Through it all, I've learned to trust that God does indeed have a plan and purpose for me. Trust doesn't come into play when you can figure everything out; that's mere reason. Trust operates when you can't understand why circumstances or events happen. That's where it takes faith to believe that God knows what is best for our lives.
 * p. 32

 * To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
 * p. 42

 * Politics disabuses a person of the notion that you can please everybody. It is an inescapable fact that people will always have different opinions, and some people are going to disagree. Sooner or later, a person constructs his or her own "platform" and stands on it, regardless of what others think, say, or do. It is also true that some people delight in another person's demise.
 * p. 67

 * I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."
 * p. 90-91

 * It wasn't that people were antagonistic; it was more that they were accustomed to doing their work in a certain way, and change always causes some people to be uncomfortable.
 * p. 91

 * I'm convinced that faith is a matter of inspiration, not a matter of imposition. It is something a person models rather than mandates. Faith does not impose itself on other people. Imposition usually sacrifices somebody else; it seeks to injure or extort others. This is what the terrorist does in an attempt to impose his religion on the world.
 * p. 98

 * It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well.
 * p. 107

 * To me, capital punishment is a form of societal self-defense. It should not be employed indiscriminately, but in cases of the most heinous crimes, the death penalty may be the only appropriate punishment. Some people believe it is right to take a life to save the life of someone else, but they would not vote to take the life of a convicted criminal, no matter how horrible the crime. Others believe that killing another person for any reason is simply wrong. I respect those opinions, but I disagree with them. I'm convinced that government has a duty to promote community defense. The death penalty, when applied in appropriate cases, can be a strong deterrent to crime. It is certainly a deterrent to the convicted criminal sentenced to death, and it is also a deterrent to other potential capital offenders.
 * p. 112

 * I have to chuckle sometimes when I am painted as "hard-nosed." In truth, our Justice Department wasn't nearly as aggressive as Roosevelt's. And our respect for civil liberties was far more extensive than the response following Pearl Harbor. Yes, we were tough, but we always operated within the law; it was never our policy or practice to detain any noncombatant without charges. In our conduct, we never approached the limits of the law as closely as Roosevelt did.
 * p. 178-179

 * Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.
 * p. 179

 * Soldiers defending a country at war are not subject to the rules of procedure designed for court trials. For example, if a soldier encounters an enemy, under internationally agreed upon rules of war, that soldier can take whatever action is necessary to protect himself and neutralize his enemy, whether it involves capturing and detaining the enemy or killing him on the spot.
 * p. 181

 * Since lives and liberties depend upon clarity, not obfuscation, and reason, not hyperbole, let me take this opportunity today to be clear: Each action taken by the Department of Justice, as well as the war crimes commissions considered by the president and the Department of Defense, is carefully drawn to target a narrow class of individuals- terrorists. Our legal powers are targeted at terrorists. Our investigation is focused on terrorists. Our prevention strategy targets the terrorist threat.
 * p. 192

 * We need honest, reasoned debate; not fear-mongering. To those who pit Americans against immigrants, and citizens against non-citizens; to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty; my message to you is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists- for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil.
 * p. 192

 * Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.
 * p. 229

 * Some people in our country seem more concerned about respecting the dignity and privacy of criminals and terrorists than they are about having an airport full of people obliterated, or a completely booked hotel blown to bits. Perhaps they think, Let's not get so upset about attacks on our embassies or military bases. Maybe, they surmise, the terrorists have good reason for attacking us. We have no right to be harassing innocent people in our country. For some people, not even the grotesque images that filled our television screens after al Qaeda's blatant attacks on 9/11 seem enough to wake them out of their utopia feel-good world.
 * p. 259

 * How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.
 * p. 263

 * Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.
 * p. 265-266

 * The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.
 * p. 285

 * We must remain constantly vigilant. We dare not underestimate our enemy. Al Qaeda is committed to the destruction of America, and they are in it for the long haul. They are much smarter than many give them credit for being, and they are definitely much more patient than the pace of our fast-food society conditions us to be. Their commitment does not depend on bin Laden or any other single leader.
 * p. 292

Quotes about John Ashcroft

 * recently the Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet. Ashcroft couldn’t even name one case.
 * Edwidge Danticat Interview (2003)

 * Former attorney general John Ashcroft mocked librarians and the ALA, accusing them and other administration critics of fueling "baseless hysteria" about the government's use of the PATRIOT Act to pry into the public's reading habits.
 * Amy Goodman Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008)

Misattributed

 * The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say "well done".
 * John Ashcroft, a British business executive (born 1948), as quoted in Sunday Telegraph (5 June 1988)

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Wikiquote talk:What Wikiquote is not

 * /Archive 1

Not censored.
I propose adding the following text to the policy : "Wikiquote is not censored. Wikiquote cannot guarantee that quotations or images will always be acceptable to all readers, or that they will adhere to general social or religious norms. The practical implications of this are as follows: Editors are encouraged to carefully consider whether adding objectionable content is appropriate before doing so. It is often a good idea to discuss the content on the discussion page of the article before adding it." as our stance on censorship, which is not covered by existing policies. -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 13:37, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Expletives should only be censored in quotation if this is how they are presented in the source.
 * Content which is sufficiently quotable to be included should not be removed because it is objectionable.
 * Censored forks of pages are inappropriate, and will be merged with the uncensored page or deleted.

 * What problem does this solve? I have not noticed any unresolved debates over censorship. We do occasionally see someone trying to bowdlerize quotes, but when noticed it is promptly reverted as a simple case of inserting false information. (People who do this sort of thing are generally not guided by policies.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 13:06, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * There are some pages which have censored forks, such as Hell's Kitchen and Hell's Kitchen (uncensored), and there's no specific remedy to these pages in existing policy. I'd rather that we formalised our current stance. -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 13:31, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The problem with those pages runs deeper: it is not a case of users censoring the source, but of quoting different sources. As I understand it, the fork was at one time justified on the basis of there being two different productions, US and UK; but what we really have here are two editions of the US production, broadcast and video. I think a case could be made for deleting the "uncensored" video fork as much less notable than the broadcast edition. (There's also no specific remedy for pagefulls of unquoteworthy spew from "notable" broadcast programs.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 14:12, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * We should probably move the pages in question then, because at the moment it looks to anyone unfamiliar with the show that the "uncensored" page is a fork of the main page. I personally feel that Wikiquote would be improved by deleting both pages, there's nothing quotable in either of them. -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 16:16, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * On the narrow point above, some rename might be appropriate. However, I agree with Ningauble that no general policy is needed.--Collingwood (talk) 11:41, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

I tend to agree with the proposal, although I would have it as a freestanding policy page, and not part of WQ:NOT. Where there are censored and uncensored versions of the same show, song, or book, the uncensored version is the original work of authorship and should be used unless there is no source from which it can be definitively determed what, exactly, was censored. Where censorship is achieved by substituting an actual word for the censored word (such as the use of "Forget You" in the radio version of the Cee Lo Green song, "Fuck You") then the substitution should be noted in the notes following the original quote. Otherwise, I wouldn't even bother noting what was bleeped in a broadcast. BD2412 T 16:54, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Works for me. Frex, when Jon Stewart has a "f[bleep]k" bleeped on The Daily Show, but an uncensored video posted hours later on thedailyshow.com has an unbleeped "fuck", we should go with the latter and write "fuck". Though its publication may be later in time, it accurately represents what originally came out of his mouth during the taping. ~ Robin Lionheart (talk) 17:19, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I recently noticed two cases in newspaper reports where words were *** out. Were I to add them to WQ, I would of course quote exactly what the source says.--Collingwood (talk) 18:09, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I would remove any censorship, because it makes the quotations less easy to understand to some individuals. -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 21:36, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * No, not unless there is a reliable and verifiable source for the uncensored version. It would be quite wrong to guess at the original version.--06:58, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Often there is, especially as no-one actually "*** outs" their words in real life. -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 10:35, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * "The D—l you say!" Actually, this sort of self-censorship is not at all unusual. It became very common in the Victorian era, using a dash rather than asterisks (which became popular with the advent of typewriters), and is still very much with us today. Many examples may be found not only in works that have been edited, but also in manuscripts and letters from the hand of the authors. Spoken English, from the Victorian era to the present day, uses initialisms such as "G— D—" or "F-ing" to the same effect in real life. I have certainly heard people say "bleeping", and during the Watergate era "expletive deleted" enjoyed brief popularity as an explative. Of course, I am not suggesting that the host of Hell's Kitchen has ever engaged in any such hypocrisy (or subtlety of any kind), just that your categorical remark overstates the case. ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:34, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Comment: I strongly agree with comments by and, above. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 16:55, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Do not add "Further reading" sections to Wikiquote articles
Per comments at Village Pump by User:Nick1372 and User:BD2412, I've added the wording about "Further reading" sections to this page, see DIFF. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 16:49, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Update: I've added some additional helpful wording by User:Ningauble from Village Pump, please see DIFF. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 18:10, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikiquote is not a source of inspirational posters
I notice that the Henry David Thoreau page is full of irrelevant or tendentious illustrations with quotations from Thoreau. In addition to the image use policy on relevance, I propose we add a "Wikiquote is not a collection of calendar art for quotations" or something like that. These motivational poster-style illustrations make me want to barf. --Macrakis (talk) 00:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

WQ:CRYSTAL clarification re: 'reliable publication previewing them'
What exactly counts as 'reliable publication previewing them'? If it's straight from the horse's mouth (IE an official trailer or press release), would that not count as a 'reliable publiation previewing them'? This seems like it might be taken in a vague context, so clarification would be needed. The reason I ask is because Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was deleted for being an 'unreleased film' yet all the quotes in there at present debuted in officially-released trailers and TV spots, and that status would suggest to me that these officially-released materials would count as the aforementioned 'reliable publications'. Ggctuk (talk) 18:45, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

title: Wikiquote talk:What Wikiquote is not