All Quotes
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Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.Heinrich Heine
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.Proverbs 12:19, The Bible
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.Proverbs 12:19, The King James Bible
Publish and be damned!Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.Doctor Who
"If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato."Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39-65, The Civil War, bk. I, 128
Do not speak ill of the dead.The Seven Sages, (Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,Solon, Thales) c. 650 - c. 550 BC, From Diogenes Laertius, Lives
"Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.Sextus Propertius 54 BC-AD 2, Elegies, II, xix, 32
"Opposites are cures for opposites.Hippocrates c. 460-400 BC, Breaths, bk. I