“The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.” — Montaigne
Quotations
“A Bully Is Always a Coward”
English proverbs:
- Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
- A hedge between keeps friendship green.
- A fault confessed is half redressed.
- A hungry man is an angry man.
- Please your eye and plague your heart.
- If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
- A good lawyer makes a bad neighbor.
- Speak fair and think what you will.
- It is not the suffering but the cause which makes a martyr.
- A fool will laugh when he is drowning.
- A foe is better than a dissembling friend.
- A disease known is half cured.
- Let your purse be your master.
- Short counsel is good counsel.
And “Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard away.”
Misc
- POSSESSIONLESSNESSES has nine Ss.
- Trains are older than bicycles.
- 87 percent of the human population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
- This sentence no verb.
- “God pity a one-dream man.” — Robert H. Goddard
Roald Dahl wrote the film adaptations for two of Ian Fleming’s novels, You Only Live Twice and Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.
(Thanks, Ben and Fred.)
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“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.” — Robert King Merton
Moderation
“At one time [Beau] Brummell ate no vegetables, and being asked by a lady if he had ever eaten any in his life said, ‘Yes, madam, I once ate a pea.'”
— William Hardcastle Browne, Witty Sayings by Witty People, 1878
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“A multitude of books confuses the mind. Accordingly, since you cannot read all the books which you may possess, it is enough to possess only as many books as you can read.” — Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius
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“The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.” — Dian Fossey
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“We become innocent when we are unfortunate.” — La Fontaine
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“It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worth hearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own businesses.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Misc
- Peter Davison, who played the fifth Doctor in Doctor Who, is the father-in-law of David Tennant, who played the 10th.
- Sharks are older than trees.
- ABHORS, ALMOST, BEGINS, BIOPSY, and CHINTZ are alphabetical.
- “The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.” — Ovid
“Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me!” — Pete Conrad, after becoming the third human to set foot on the moon