It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument., William G. McAdoo, US industrialist, lawyer, politician (1863 1941)
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautifulminded_., Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe, Greek author philosopher in Athens (427 BC 347 BC)
GotLink.plThere is just one thing I can promise you about the outerspace program: your dollar will go further., Wernher Von Braun, US (Germanborn) rocket engineer (1912 1977)
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults., Antisthenes, Greek philosopher at Athens (445 BC 365 BC)
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself., Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12 1978, US (Polishborn) Jewish author (1904 1991)
Every man over forty is a scoundrel., George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903 Maxims for Revolutionists, Irish dramatist socialist (1856 1950)