Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. – Benjamin Franklin
Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. – Horace
Do you suppose that your beard creates brains and therefore you grow that fly-flapper? Take my advice and shave it off at once; for that beard is a creator of lice and not of brains. – Ammianus (2nd century A.D.), in The Greek Anthology, Volume IV, “Book XI: The Co