“It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.”
Alfred Jarry
“He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.”
P. G. Wodehouse
“[The righthander was shaken afterward but not before, he insisted.] I probably haven't faced a lineup like theirs. ... To me, I'm not scared of anybody. They're baseball players just like I am. They put their uni on the same way I do. It's about executing. Today I didn't execute. There's no other excuse for it.”
Shawn Chacon
“ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. --Romach Pute”
Ambrose Bierce
“The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.”
Horace
“Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off”
Denis Diderot
“I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.”
Joseph Addison
