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Posted on October 3, 2022

“Solemnity is the shield of idiots.”—Montesquieu, French philosopher, 1689-1750

Posted on September 23, 2022September 24, 2022

“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”—Dorothy Parker, American poet, 1893-1967 (editor’s note: this is a substitute for the “You can….” quotation. Our apologies.)

Posted on August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

“If fortune wants to do you in, she makes you stupid.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim-writer, 85 BC — 43 BC

Posted on July 11, 2022July 11, 2022

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist, 1742-1799

Posted on April 30, 2022

“You who seek an end of love—love will yield to busyness: be busy, and you will be safe.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC–18 AD

Posted on April 21, 2022

“Do not panic.”—Douglas Adams (on the cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), British author, 1952-2001

Posted on January 26, 2022

“In this world, second thoughts, it seems, are best.”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

Posted on January 22, 2022January 21, 2022

“Miss not the discourse of the elders.”—Apocrypha

Posted on November 22, 2021

“Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain.”—Friedrich von Schiller, German philosopher, 1759-1805

Posted on September 5, 2021September 5, 2021

“A good mind possesses a kingdom.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC–65 AD

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