I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

In delay there lies no plenty.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

A Plato Quote

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

A Plato Quote

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures...

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.