Pan Quotes 

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.
Tom Robbins
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Tutes les dames de une tere Vendreit il meuz d'amer requere Quë un fol de sun pan tolir; Kar cil volt an eire ferir.

marie de france

— It would be less dangerous for a man to court every lady in an entire land than for a lady to remove a single besotted lover from her skirts, for he will immediately attempt to strike back.
"Chaitivel", line 19; p. 105.

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In a dream I saw Jesus and My God pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.


— Khalil Gibran, in Jesus, The Son of Man (1928), Sarkis an old Greek Shepherd, called the madman: Jesus and Pan

Tags: dream, saw, Jesus, God, sitting, together, heart, forest, laughed

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The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.

terry pratchett

— The Science of Discworld II: The Globe

Tags: anthropologists, wrong, when, named, our, species, Homo, sapiens, man'

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El pan comido y la compan?  |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

Miguel de Cervantes

— 1615  Don Quixote, pt.2, ch.7.

Tags: El, bread, eaten, company, breaks

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Ann, Ann! Come! quick as you can! There's a fish that talks In the frying pan.

walter de la mare

— 1913  'Alas,  Alack'.

Tags: Ann, quick, you, can, fish, talks, frying

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Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.

forrest Gump

— Forrest Gump (1994), Mykelti Williamson

Tags: sandwich, Burger, potatoes, salad, stew, soup, pepper, coconut, lemon

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There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan.

Francis Bacon

— Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Cunning.

Tags: There, cunning, we, England, call, turning, cat

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Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.


— Part II, chapter 5. (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919))

Tags: Leape, frying, fyre

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What is so remarkable in all these theories and doctrines is their implicit monism , the claim that behind the obvious multiplicity of the world’s appearances and, even more pertinently to our context, behind the obvious plurality of man’s faculties and abilities, there must exist a oneness the old hen pan , “the all is one” either a single source or a single ruler.


— Hannah Arendt , in The Life of the Mind (1971), p. 70

Tags: What, remarkable, theories, doctrines, implicit, monism, claim, behind, obvious

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Panie Wo?ny, pan Hrabia ?mie Wa?pana prosi?, Aby? raczy? przed szlacht? braci? wnet og?osi? Intromisyj? Hrabi do zamku, do dworu Sopliców, do wsi, gruntów zasianych, ugoru, S?owem cum gais, boris et graniciebus, Kmetonibus, scultetis et omnibus rebus Et quibusdam aliis.


— Translation:
The Count is so bold, Usher, to ask you this once
That before all the gentry you deign to announce
The Count's seising of castle, of homestead, of village,
Of all fields sown, lands fallow, and land under tillage,
Cum gravibus, forestis, and cum bounderibus,
Peasantibus, bailivis, et omnibus rebus,
Et quibusdam aliis.

— Comment: Gerwazy's attempt to force a court usher to issue a legal ruling in the Count's favor. His use of mock Latin is typical of legal parlance of the era.

Tags: mie, Soplicw, omnibus, rebus, aliis

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Ach, pan gada, gada, gada.


— Oh, you're talking, talking, talking.
— Councillor's wife (Radczyni)

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What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?

Karl Kraus

— Sprüche und Widersprüche (Dicta and Contradictions)

Tags: What, Ninth, Symphony, compared, Tin, Alley, hit, played, hurdygurdy

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Lambert, who admired Duke Ellington and proclaimed his harmonic roots in Frederick Delius (who in his turn had taken them from Debussy), was a fearless reconciler of what the academies and Tin pan Alley alike presumed to be eternally opposed…In 1972, on a plane from New York to Toronto, I found myself sitting next to Duke Ellington, who spoke almost with tears in his eyes of the stature of Lambert.

Constant Lambert

— Anthony Burgess Little Wilson and Big God ([1987] 1988) pp. 110-11.

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This man has lived here a reasonably long time and has gladly talked in his life to no one, has spoken first to no one except of necessity, since he is a neighbor and passes by me, pan . And he immediately regrets it, I'm sure.

Menander

— Pan

Tags: man, lived, here, reasonably, long, time, gladly, talked, life

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It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed.

conor oberst

— Clairaudients(Kill or Be Killed)

Tags: exploding, bags, cans, buses, left, us, again, thought, you

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world .

josé ortega y gasset

— "Art a Thing of No Consequence"

Tags: art, redeem, man, saving, him, seriousness, life, restoring, unexpected

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The great god pan is dead.

Plutarch

— Why the Oracles cease to give Answers.

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Come with me on a journey beneath the skin We will look together for the pan within.

mike scott

— "The Pan Within"

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He's like a man you'd meet any place until you recognize that ancient Face The Great God pan is alive !

mike scott

— "The Return Of Pan"

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A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead pan he sighed, As if Theocritus in Sicily Had come upon the Figure crucified, And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.


— Maurice Francis Egan, Maurice de Gurin.

Tags: pagan, heart, Christian, soul, followed, Christ, yet, dead, sighed

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Common chimpanzee, pan troglodytes (West and Central Africa) Bonobo, pan paniscus (forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) Sourced

jane goodall

— Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man (1971), p. 199

Tags: Common, chimpanzee, West, Central, Africa, forests, Democratic, Republic, Congo

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"You will not find him dead easily. If he has been tipped out of the car, we shall find him rolling as a colt rolls in a field, kicking his legs for fun ." "Clashing his hoofs," said the Professor. "The colts do, and so did pan ." "pan again!" said Dr. Bull irritably. "You seem to think pan is everything ." "So he is," said the Professor, "in Greek. He means everything." "Don't forget," said the Secretary, looking down, "that he also means Panic ."


— G. K. Chesterton, in The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), Ch. XIV : The Six Philosophers

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.


— José Ortega y Gasset, in "Art a Thing of No Consequence" in The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

Tags: art, redeem, man, saving, him, seriousness, life, restoring, unexpected

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Thamus … uttered with a loud voice his message, "The great pan is dead."


— Plutarch, Why the Oracles cease to give Answers.

Tags: uttered, loud, voice, message, great, dead

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Me goatfoot pan of Arcady the Median fear, The Athenian's friend, Miltiades placed here.


— Simonides, in Greek Anthology.

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Many persons have thought that this pan [ Pandeism ] related to what has been called Pantheism, or the adoration of universal nature, and that Pantheism was the first system of man. For this opinion I cannot see a shadow of foundation. As I have formerly said, it seems to me contrary to common sense to believe that the ignorant half savage would first worship the ground he treads upon,--that he would raise his mind to so abstruse and so improbable a doctrine as, that the earth he treads upon created him and created itself: for Pantheism instantly comes to this

godfrey higgins

— Anacalypsis (1833), p. 443.

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Peter pan (originally titled Peter pan and Wendy). Peter pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Never land as leader of the Lost Boys.


— J. M. Barrie (1860–1937), possibly referring to Israel Zangwill's play

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(...) pan Tadeusz gradually won recognition as the highest achievement in all Polish literature for having transformed into poetry what seemed by its very nature to resist any such attempt. In it, Mickiewicz's whole literary training culminates in an effortless conciseness where every word finds its proper place as if predestined throughout the many centuries of the history of the Polish language.


— Author: Czes?aw Mi?osz
— Source: Mi?osz, Czes?aw (1983). The history of Polish literature. University of California Press. ISBN 0520044770. 

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The third course had been served. And then pan Chamberlain, In Miss Rose's glass pouring a wee drop again, Pushed a plate to the younger of gherkins and bread...


— Book One, The Estate

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