Content Tagged “quotes”

• Metellus Numidicus on Marriage

  Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people in a public oration that had kind Nature allowed us to exist without the help of women, we should be delivered from a very troublesome companion; and he could recommend matrimony, only as the sacrifice of private pleasure to public duty.

  — Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I, p. 167, footnote 1

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• The Last Refuge of the Incompetent

  Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  — Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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• Coffee Wisdom

  It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.

  This piece by Dave Barry from the 9 November 1997 edition of The Washington Post is one of the best texts on coffee I've ever read. This is exactly how I feel about it.

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