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• Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be,--a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Themistocle...
• Socrates said, "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- How a Young Man ought to hear Poems, 4...
• When Alexander asked Diogenes whether he wanted anything, "Yes," said he, "I would have you stand from between me and the sun.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Alexande...
• I like picking up hitchhikers, and then look straight ahead with out speaking at all.
  Then after a while, look at the victim and give evil laugh, and grin at them....
• Nodding the head does not row the boat.
• Caesar said to the soothsayer, "The ides of March are come
  who answered him calmly, "Yes, they are come, but they are not past....
• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, "What a life," said he, "is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Philip...