Author: Jon

“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing.”

— Torquato Tasso (1544 – 1595)

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“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”

— Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)

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“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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