„I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.“

Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p61.

Part 3, Chapter 6 (p. 128)
Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)

Quelle: The Artist's Way

Interview, Pop-Rock Candy Mountain (2008-06-11)

Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)

Taped Message (1984)

To my friend http://imirelnik.io.ua/s1954083/to_my_friends

Quelle: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Song lyrics, In My Tribe (1987), What's The Matter Here?

Quelle: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 6
Kontext: I am Aeaea. To my notion there is no other lady anywhere. And I resent your calling this a silly myth. I made the myth and it is not silly; charming rather. Well, come along, come along! You are my things now, and you will come when I call you.

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 86. The quotation has been attributed to many others, such as Lord Chief Justice Campbell, Lord Chesterfield, Sir William Harcourt, Lord Pembroke, Lord Westbury, and to an anonymous judge, and said to have been spoken in court to Garter King at Arms, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, or some other high-ranking herald, who had confused a "bend" with a "bar" or had demanded fees to which he was not entitled. George Bernard Shaw quotes it in Pygmalion (1912) in the form, "The silly people dont [sic] know their own silly business."

Maule cannot be the original source of the quotation, as it is quoted nearly twenty years before his birth in Charles Jenner's The Placid Man: Or, The Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville (1770): "Sir Harry Clayton ... was perhaps far better qualified to have written a Peerage of England than Garter King at Arms, or Rouge Dragon, or any of those parti-coloured officers of the court of honor, who, as a great man complained on a late solemnity, are but too often so silly as not to know their own silly business." "Old Lord Pembroke" (Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke) is said by Horace Walpole (in a letter of May 28, 1774 to the Rev. William Cole) to have directed the quip, "Thou silly fellow! Thou dost not know thy own silly business," at John Anstis, Garter King at Arms (though in his 1833 edition of Walpole's letters to Sir Horace Mann, George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, attributes the saying to Lord Chesterfield in a footnote, in the form "You foolish man, you do not understand your own foolish business"). Edmund Burke also quotes it ("'Silly man, that dost not know thy own silly trade!' was once well said: but the trade here is not silly.") in a "Speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq." on May 7, 1789 (when Maule was just over a year old). Chesterfield or Pembroke fit best in point of time.
Attributed

Quelle: The Uplift War (1987), Chapter 10 (p. 66)

Hays translation
Quelle: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VII, 71

Quelle: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 107

Quelle: Witches Abroad

Quelle: The Alchemist (1988), p. 65.

Quelle: Mortal Coil

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird