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• The only certainty is that nothing is certain. -- Pliny the Elde
• In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. -- Pliny the Elde
• So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain.
  . . -- Pliny The Elde...
• Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught.
  He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep....
• To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 2...
• Certainty is only a symptom of lack of imagination.
• It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late
  and again, that everything must be done at its proper seaso...
• Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a working man.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79)...
• Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
  -- Pliny The Elde...