Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.

A Plato Quote

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns...

If music be the food of love; play on.

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

A Plato Quote

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

A Plato Quote

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

William Shakespeare

A Plato Quote

Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.