WIST Quotations

~Proverbs and Sayings -- Italian proverb

Dave — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:12:28 +0000

Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains.

Proverbs, Sayings, and Adages
Italian proverb

Also noted as a Jewish or Yiddish proverb.

This is also often cited to Sally Koslow, Little Pink Slips, ch. 5 (2007); it appears there as ""Many complain of their looks, few of their brains," but is described as an unoriginal needlepoint on a pillow cover.

See also La Rochefoucauld for a similar construction.

Heinlein, Robert A. -- Stranger in a Strange Land, ch. 27 [Patty] (1961)

Dave — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:40:04 +0000

If God didn’t want women to be looked at, he would have made ’em ugly — that’s reasonable, isn’t it? God isn’t a cheat; He set up the game Himself — He wouldn’t rig it so that the marks can’t win, like a flat joint wheel in a town with the fix on. He wouldn’t send anybody to Hell for losing in a crooked game.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Stranger in a Strange Land, ch. 27 [Patty] (1961)
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Verne, Jules -- Around the World in Eighty Days, ch. 6 (1873)

Dave — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 23:31:38 +0000

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

Jules Verne (1828-1905) French novelist, poet, playwright
Around the World in Eighty Days, ch. 6 (1873)
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Kasdan, Lawrence -- Return of the Jedi (1983) [with George Lucas]

Dave — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:56:52 +0000

YODA: When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmm?

Lawrence Kasdan (b. 1949) American screenwriter, director, producer
Return of the Jedi (1983) [with George Lucas]