Pan Quotes
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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.
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— Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1976)
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
Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.
john heywood— Part II, chapter 5.
Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.
tori amos— "Marianne" (Songs)
I can’t accept “our nervous age,” since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
Anton Chekhov— Letter to E.M. Savrova-Yust (February 28, 1895)
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
Hen to pan
— Cleopatra the Alchemist, in The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra
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.
— 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.
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.
Ach, pan gada, gada, gada.
— Oh, you're talking, talking, talking.
— Councillor's wife (Radczyni)
I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground.
mary martin— As quoted in Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008) by Ronald L. Davis. p. 183
You are my Peter pan.
mary martin— To Sandy Duncan, who had told her "You're the only Peter Pan I'll ever know" in a meeting after a Duncan's performance in the role, as quoted in Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008) by Ronald L. Davis. p. 183
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
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)
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", The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel [La deshumanización del Arte e Ideas sobre la novela] (1925)
How often in the summer-tide, His graver business set aside, Has stripling Will, the thoughtful-eyed As to the pipe of pan, Stepped blithesomely with lover's pride Across the fields to Anne.
— Richard Burton, Across the Fields to Anne (referring to Shakespeare).
" 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
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.
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
Some say the Gods are just a myth but guess Who I've been dancing with... The Great God pan is alive!
— Mike Scott, in "The Return Of Pan" on Dream Harder (1993)
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair! And they heard the words it said pan is dead! great pan is dead! pan, pan is dead!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Dead Pan.
Of pan we sing, the best of leaders pan, That leads the Naiads and the Dryads forth; And to their dances more than Hermes can, Hear, O you groves, and hills resound his worth.
Ben Jonson— Ben Jonson, Pan's Anniversary Hymn, I.
Thamus … uttered with a loud voice his message, "The great pan is dead."
— Plutarch, Why the Oracles cease to give Answers.
Me goatfoot pan of Arcady the Median fear, The Athenian's friend, Miltiades placed here.
— Simonides, in Greek Anthology.
pan Tadeusz czyli Ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu ksi?gach wierszem.
— Translation: Pan Tadeusz or The Last Foray in Lithuania. A Tale of the Gentry during 1811–1812 in Twelve Books of Verse.
— Comment: Tadeusz (Thaddeus) is the first name of the main character, Tadeusz Soplica. Pan is an honorific, then reserved to noblemen, roughly equivalent to "Sir". Mickiewicz explains the term zajazd (here translated as "foray") as an armed execution of a court order carried out by the plaintiff's relatives and neighbors.
In pan Tadeusz Poland possesses the only successful epic our century has produced.
— Author: Georg Brandes
— Source: Introduction to a 1917 English edition
(...) 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.
