Posted on December 5, 2016February 14, 2026 “Things are seldom what they seem; skim milk masquerades as cream.”—W.S. Gilbert (in Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘HMS Pinafore’), English dramatist, 1836-1911
Posted on December 4, 2016April 24, 2020 “Familiarity breeds contempt.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC
Posted on December 3, 2016February 15, 2026 “Nothing happens next. This is it.”—Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist, 1930-2019
Posted on December 2, 2016February 15, 2026 “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 384-322 BC
Posted on November 30, 2016February 15, 2026 “Force has no place where there is need of skill.”—Herodotus, Greek historian, c. 484–c. 425 BC
Posted on November 29, 2016February 15, 2026 “He who is everywhere is nowhere.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC — c. 65 AD
Posted on November 28, 2016October 2, 2020 “For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626
Posted on November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 “Big book, big bore.”—Callimachus, Greek critic, 305-240 BC
Posted on November 23, 2016February 17, 2026 “Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.”—Suzanne Curchod Necker, Swiss salonist, 1737-1794
Posted on November 22, 2016February 17, 2026 “The unexamined life is not worth living.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, c. 470 — 399 BC
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