„I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.“
Insurance up to Date
Literary Lapses (1910)
Stephen Leacock8
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— Edgar Degas French artist 1834 - 1917
J'ai vraiment, un vrai bagage dans la tête. S'il y avait pour cela, comme il y a partout ici, des compagnies d'assurance, voilà un ballot je ferais assurer de suite.
Quote from a letter to James Tissot, (New Orleans, 1873), as cited in Marilyn Brown, Degas and the Business of Art: A Cotton Office in New Orleans (Penn State Press, 1994)
1855 - 1875
— Marcus Garvey Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur 1887 - 1940
Zdroj: Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
— William Wordsworth English Romantic poet 1770 - 1850
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, (1802); the last three lines of this form the introductory lines of the long Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood begun the next day.
„I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.“
— Voltaire French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694 - 1778
Je meurs en adorant Dieu, en aimant mes amis, en ne haïssant pas mes ennemis et en détestant la superstition.
Déclaration de Voltaire, note to his secretary, Jean-Louis Wagnière (28 February 1778)
Citas
„That I shall sink in death, I know must be;
But with that death of mine what life will die?“
— Giordano Bruno Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548 - 1600
As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" by Thomas Davidson, in The Index Vol. VI. No. 36 (4 March 1886), p. 429
Kontext: That I shall sink in death, I know must be;
But with that death of mine what life will die? Across the air, I hear my heart's voice cry:
Where dost thou bear me reckless one? Descend!
Such rashness seldom ends but bitterly'
"Fear not the lofty fall" I answer "rend
With might the clouds, and be content to die,
If God such a glorious death for us intend."
— Richard von Mises Austrian physicist and mathematician 1883 - 1953
Third Lecture, Critical Discussion of the Foundations of Probability, p. 80
Probability, Statistics And Truth - Second Revised English Edition - (1957)
„Down in the deep, up in the sky,
I see them always, far or nigh,
And I shall see them till I die —“
— Dinah Craik English novelist and poet 1826 - 1887
"Magnus and Morna", in Thirty Years, Poems New and Old (1880)
Kontext: p>Down in the deep, up in the sky,
I see them always, far or nigh,
And I shall see them till I die —The old familiar faces.</p
— James Joyce Irish novelist and poet 1882 - 1941
Joyce's reply for a request for a plan of Ulysses, as quoted in James Joyce (1959) by Richard Ellmann
— Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VI : In the Depths of the Abyss
Kontext: I will not say that the more or less poetical and unphilosophical doctrines that I am about to set forth are those which make me live; but I will venture to say that it is my longing to live and to live for ever that inspires these doctrines within me. And if by means of them I succeed in strengthening and sustaining this same longing in another, perhaps when it is all but dead, then I shall have performed a man's work, and above all, I shall have lived. In a word, be it with reason or without reason or against reason, I am resolved not to die. And if, when at last I die out, I die altogether, then I shall not have died out of myself — that is, I shall not have yielded myself to death, but my human destiny shall have killed me. Unless I come to lose my head, or rather my heart, I will not abdicate from life — life will be wrested from me.
„I shall die unavenged, but I shall die,"
she says. "Thus, thus, I gladly go below
to shadows.“
‘Moriemur inultae,
Sed moriamur’ ait. ‘sic, sic juvat ire sub umbras.’
— Virgil, Aeneid
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 659–660 (tr. Allen Mandelbaum)
— Michael Jensen American economist 1939
Zdroj: "Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure", 1976, p. 308
„I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top.“
— Jonathan Swift Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667 - 1745
Predicting that he would go senile, as quoted in The Highway of Letters and its Echos of Famous Footsteps (1893) by Thomas Archer, p. 380
„And shall I die? and unrevenged?“
— Charles Symmons Welsh poet 1749 - 1826
she said:
"Yes! let me die! thus—thus I plunge in night."
Book IV, lines 887–888
The Æneis (1817)
— Louis Pasteur French chemist and microbiologist 1822 - 1895
Original in French: Maintenant, messieurs, il y aurait un beau sujet à traiter : c’est celui du rôle, dans l’économie générale de la création, de quelques-uns de ces petits êtres qui sont les agents de la fermentation, les agents de la putréfaction, de la désorganisation de tout ce qui a eu vie il la surface du globe. Ce rôle est immense, merveilleux, vraiment émouvant. Un jour peut-être me sera-t-il donné de vous exposer ici quelques-uns de ces résultats. Dieu veuille que ce soit encore en présence à une aussi brillante assemblée!
Soirées scientifiques de la Sorbonne (1864)