Milton Quotes - Page 4

• The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Real, Reading, Sight

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• All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

  George Stigler

  Two, Economist, Kenneth

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• Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.

  Dean Martin

  Perseverance, Inspiration, Hard Work

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

  Robert Browning

  Inspiration, Watches, Graves

  'The Lost Leader' (1845)

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• That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

  William Wordsworth

  Song, Divinity, Orbs

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.

  Zadie Smith

  Caring, Artist, Choices

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• Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cities, Healthy, London

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing my phisical strengh, I find myself less able to explore the outer world, but better prepared to explore the inner.

  Doug Scott

  Real, Climbing, World

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• Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

  Ray Bradbury

  Father, Writing, Dry Bones

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Bible, Pygmalion, Native Language

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Angel, Science, Agency

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.102, University of Georgia Press

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• Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Thinking, Knowing, Too Much

  Statement on November 11, 1947. "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead". Book by Alfred North Whitehead. Chapter 43,, 1954.

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• Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Imaginative

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.202

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• Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Adviser, Millions

  "The Private Man and the Public Life; Interview With Galbraith". The Washington Post, April 26, 1981.

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• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

  William Wordsworth

  Water, England, Needs

  "London, 1802" l. 1 (1807)

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• The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Father, Reality, America

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1888). “Old portraits and modern sketches”

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• The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Intensity, Characteristics

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• Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

  William Cowper

  Rome, Names, Sound

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.469

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• I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene?

  Charles Lamb

  Spiritual, Book, Reading

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.108

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• Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets." Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.

  Willis Regier

  Suffering, May, Literature

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedmans insight is that a market limits the power that others have over us; conversely, limiting the power that others have over us allows us to have markets. Friedman argued that no matter how wise the officials of government may be, market competition does a better job of protecting us from idiots.

  Arnold Kling

  Wise, Jobs, Government

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• Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

  Paul Desmond

  Play, People, Perfect

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• When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

  Paul Samuelson

  Advice, Economy

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• We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?

  Edward Abbey

  Suicide, Book, Home

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• I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a lot of us who believe in open trade, open borders, a dynamic forward-looking economy, not a nostalgic economy, but do want to provide a significant level of social service or sort of economic Milton Friedman foreign policy, Ronald Reagan domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt. And there's a lot of room in the center.

  David Brooks

  Believe, Thinking, Borders

  Source: www.npr.org

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