Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.<br> (Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland) Wilfred Owen, Poem: Dulce et Decorum est. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. Joseph Conrad English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924) Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them. Edgar Allan Poe US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) There lives more faith in honest doubt, <br> Believe me, <br> than in half the creeds. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. 96, ll. 11-12. I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character. Charles Barkley, "they said it" in Sports Illustrated US basketball player (1963 - ) I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michaelangelo Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God. Euripides Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. Fred Astaire The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer English philosopher (1820 - 1903) |