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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
  -- Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)...
• Wisdom comes to no one by chance. SENECA
• Deal's Second Law of Sailing: No matter how strong the breeze when you leave the dock, once you have reached the furthest point from port the wind will die.
• There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes.
  For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink...
• One crime is concealed by the commission of another. -- Seneca
• Berth: Any horizontal surface whose total area does not exceed one half of the surface area of an average person at re
  onto which at least one liter of some liquid seeps during any 12-hour period, and above which there are not less than 10 kilograms of improperly secured objects....
• Modesty that comes to expression. It is favorable to set armies marching To chastise one's own city and one's country.
• Mathematics contains much that will neither hurt one if one does not know it nor help one if one does know it.
  -- J.B. Mencke...
• The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
  -- Anatole France...