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The following ties in nicely with another thread (What is music?
) All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it....
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
-- Paul Valery, 1895...
The food that I like best- the food that makes me hungry just to think of- is very simple.
When I cook I try never to get too far away from that kind of simplicity. -- Jeremiah Towe...
The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act i, Sc. 3...
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act v, Sc. 1...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. -- Old Testament -- Psalm xiv, 1; liii, 1
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think
he wise reject what they think, not what they see. -- Huang Po...
The fool of fate,--thy manufacture, man.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xx, Line 254...
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 107...
The football team of Texas A&M took an IQ test. High point man was the Tackling Dummy.

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