Month: March 2011

“For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.”

— Titus Lucretius Carus (99 BC – 55 BC)

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“On the contrary, I read it.  It doesn’t take very long, you know, 15 minutes at the most.  It’s so small.  My powder compact is bigger than your little Green Book.”

— Oriana Fallaci (1929 – 2006), when Muammar Gaddafi complains she has not read his book, “The Green Book”

“A new idea is delicate.  It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.”

— Publius Ovidius Naso [Ovid] (43 BC – AD 18)

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“To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgement, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine.”

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463 – 1494)

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“Women dress alike all over the world, they dress to be annoying to other women.”

— Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 — 1973)

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