Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. - Michael Crichton

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian

Proverb I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. - Randall Jarrell