...twice a fool

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
-Louis L’Amour, novelist (1908-1988)

fossil poetry

Language is fossil poetry. 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

each day...

"Each day provides its own gifts."

~ Marcus Aurelius

...can sometimes count

You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange.
-A.K. Ramanujan, poet (1929-1993)

25,000 of my favorite

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. 

-Janis Joplin, singer-songwriter (1943-1970)