"Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend."
"War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men." Armand Jean du Plessis
"Leisure is the mother of Philosophy." Thomas Hobbes
"Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view."
John Gay
"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous." Hannah Arendt
"Music does not exist until it is performed."
"The summer that I was ten—
Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must
have been a long one then—"
May Swenson
"You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream." Frank Vincent Zappa
"It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just." Rose Elizabeth Bird