Peter Sheil

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter De Vries

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Bragg

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop (~550 BC)

One of those lists of factoids says that a dusk's quack does not echo.

www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_071.html says otherwise.

the truth is out there.
peter