User:Mballen

"If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist. - Enrico Fermi" "Nothing is as old as yesterday's newspaper -- but Homer is new this morning!" "(paraphrased from Charles Péguy [?]: 'Homer is new this morning and nothing is perhaps as old as today's newspaper.')" The War-Song of Dinas Vawr ''The mountain sheep are sweeter ''But the valley sheep are fatter; ''We therefore deem’d it meeter To carry off the latter. —Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), The Misfortunes of Elphin The Leaders of the Crowd ''They must to keep their certainty accuse ''All that are different of a base intent; ''Pull down established honor; hawk for news ''Whatever their loose fantasy invent ''And murmur it with bated breath, as though ''The abounding gutter had been Helicon ''Or calumny a song. How can they know ''Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, ''And there alone, that have no solitude? ''So the crowd come they care not what may come. ''They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)