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(Wisdom of the Elders) Blog of quotations, epigrams,& excerpts. COMMENT/DISCUSS: twitter.com/PSeniorum.

Posted on March 27, 2023

“If you love it enough, anything will talk to you.”—George Washington Carver, American agricultural scientist, 1864-1943

Posted on March 17, 2023March 16, 2023

“All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.”—William Harvey, English physician & physiologist, 1578-1657

Posted on March 15, 2023March 14, 2023

“What good is a chain with a bad link?”—Nero Wolfe, fictional detective (Rex Stout, American mystery writer, 1886-1975)

Posted on March 5, 2023March 4, 2023

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”—Democritus, Greek philosopher, 460-370 BC

Posted on February 27, 2023February 26, 2023

“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980

Posted on February 23, 2023February 22, 2023

“We’re all just walking each other home.”—Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), American spiritual leader, 1931-2019

Posted on February 21, 2023February 26, 2023

“Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”—Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry, French writer, 1900-1944

Posted on February 18, 2023

“The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”—(‘Much Ado About Nothing’), William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616

Posted on February 17, 2023

“Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973

Posted on February 12, 2023

“For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.”—John Donne, English poet, 1572-1631

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