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• Little said is soonest mended. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap.
  xi...
• Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman 's fair?
  Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosy are?...
• Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- The Passionate Pilgrim, xiv...
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• If I was going to storm a pillbox, going to sheer, utte
  certain death, and the colonel said, "Shepherd, pick six guys," I'd pick six White Sox fans, because they have known death every day of their lives and it holds no terror for them....
• Least said is soonest disavowed. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Qoylu' vIneHpu'be'chugh vIjatlhpu'be' - Klingon Proverb.
  Translation: If I hadn't want it heard I wouldn't have said it. -- "The Final Reflectio...
• Heard so oft In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 275...