To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) "Opposites are cures for opposites. Hippocrates c. 460-400 BC, Breaths, bk. I "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. Sextus Propertius 54 BC-AD 2, Elegies, II, xix, 32 Do not speak ill of the dead. The Seven Sages, (Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,Solon, Thales) c. 650 - c. 550 BC, From Diogenes Laertius, Lives (650 BC - 550 BC) "If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato." Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39-65, The Civil War, bk. I, 128 First things first, but not necessarily in that order. Doctor Who A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960) Publish and be damned! Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Proverbs 12:19, The King James Bible |