To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 04:16:54 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: quotations down through the ages
From: ronkean at juno.com

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 01:39:51 -0400 Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
writes:
>
> ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Wise men talk because they have something to say;
> > fools, because they have to say something
> >                          --Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
> >
> > "Plato was a bore."
> >                  - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
> >
> > "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
> >                          - Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910)
> >
> > "I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoi"
> >                    - Ernest Hemmingway (1889-1961)
> >
> > "Hemmingway was a jerk."
> >                                  - Harold Robbins
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> De-evolution?
>
> --Ted White
>

It does seem like the quotations become progressively less wise.

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