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• Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. (When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.
  ) Horace, from Ars Poetica...
• Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods. -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Ars Poetica, 359
• The mountains will be in labour; an absurd mouse will be born.
  -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Ars Poetica, 139...
• If you wish me to weep, you yourself must feel grief. -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Ars Poetica, 102
• How many undertakers -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  None. They just paint them black and go on using them....
• Yea, verily do many strange things come to be.
• How many theoretical physicists -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  If you want to know how many, you can observe them as they come in the door....
• Now of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It leaves me only fifty more.
  And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow....
• How many Directors -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Three. No, five. No, you go away - four. YES! Four! Perfect!...