One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.