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PROVERBIUM SENIORUM — Quotations that have aged well

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Tag: “Observatio Experimenta et Inventum”

Posted on February 1, 2018February 8, 2018

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.”—Charles Lamb, English essayist, 1775-1834

Posted on January 28, 2018

“Under every stone lurks a politician.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC

Posted on January 19, 2018January 19, 2018

“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”—Laurence J. Peter, educator & author, 1919-1990

Posted on January 18, 2018

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 427-347 BC

Posted on January 15, 2018January 15, 2018

“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”—Aeschylus, Greek playwright, 525-456 BC

Posted on January 13, 2018January 13, 2018

“A good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.”—Charles Dickens, English writer & social critic, 1812-1870

Posted on August 24, 2017August 24, 2017

“By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.”—Democritus, Greek philosopher, 460-370 BC

Posted on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017

“For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?”—Thornton Wilder, American playwright & novelist, 1897-1975

Posted on July 18, 2017July 18, 2017

“The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.”—Eileen Shanahan, NY Times reporter, 1924-2001

Posted on July 15, 2017July 16, 2017

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”—Laurence J. Peter, educator & author, 1919-1990

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