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- But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), in Symposium
- Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
- William F. Buckley, Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"
- It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead.
- Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993), (Former Chief Justice), on President George Bush
- Tipper and Al came to a show the last time we were in Washington. They're nice people, a nice family. We made every effort not to frighten them.
- Jerry Garcia, on rumors the Grateful Dead may play at the Inaugural. Boston Globe, Dec 12,1992.
- Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing."
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
- Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
- Lin Yutang
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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