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• Remember what Simonides said,--that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Rules for the Preservation of Health, 7...
• Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved
  and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this....
• When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said
  "Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone....
• When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!
  aid he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief....
• He had heard that one is permitted a certain latitude with widows, and went in for the whole 180 degrees.
• The most egotistical person we've ever heard of is the one who remarked that he had only been wrong once in his life and that was when he thought he was wrong but wasn't.
• Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece
  For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother....
• Captain of the Exxon Valdez to Third Mate: "I said SCOTCH on the rocks, not STOP on the rocks!
  The only thing that remained loaded on the Valdez was the captain....
• There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes.
  For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink...