Quincunx Conjuncts

What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't buy the house; buy the neighbor.
— Russian Proverb

Ne te quaesiverie extra = Do not seek yourself outside yourself.
— Persius, Satire I, 7.

Ah! very great tree of language, peopled with oracles and maxims, and murmuring the murmur of one born blind among the quincunxes of knowledge....
— St.-John Perse"Winds," I, 1.

As soon as you discover that someone has something to say, you do your best to congratulate them out of ever doing it again.
— Frederic Raphael on Dick Cavett's PBS Show.

If you selected 100 people at random, about how many do you think could be taught to ice skate or to roller skate in a reasonably short period of time? Don't you think it would be about 97 or 98? If you did the same thing and tried to get them to listen to Bartok's Third String Quartet, how many would listen? Maybe three or four? Well, what I'm saying is that you could do either and here you are roller skating!

Unlike his talent for composing, Chopin's genius as a pianist was recognized from the very beginning. It is a fascinating sport to speculate about the actual sound of his playing. There are many descriptions by his contemporaries and some by himself. We know that it was dynamically restricted; Chopin did not have the physical strength of some of his colleagues since he suffered from consumption nearly all of his life. His weight never exceeded a mere 100 pounds. Once, while listening to a young pianist play his Polonaise Militaire, a string broke in the piano and the pianist apologized in confusion. "Young man," said Chopin, "if I had your strength and played that polonaise as it should be played, there would not be a string left in the instrument by the time I got through."
— Thomas Frost, Liner Notes on "Vladimir Horowitz: New Recordings of Chopin."

Clown is a French word meaning "clown"; importance is a French word meaning "importance."

Let's create monasteries in space with encapsulated Libraries of Congress!

Pipe smokers are slow thinkers.
— Donald Elgeti

A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.
— A. E. Lowry

A cigar is something with a fire at one end and a fool at the other.
— Horace Greeley