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• Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. -- Marianne Moore
• When asked, "What is a contingent fee?" a lawyer answered, "A contingent fee to a lawyer means, if I don't win your suit, I get nothing.
  If I do win it, you get nothing....
• When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Actio
  and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action....
• Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...
• Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, iv...
• A question well-asked is half answered.
• Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, viii, 4...
• She asked me, "What's your sign?" I blinked and answered "Neon," I thought I'd blow her mind...
• Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.
  -- Moore...