Edward Gillman

“Only she is chaste whom none has invited”
― Ovid, The Art of Love

“called that view what it was: poppycock. As his secretary of war, Elihu Root, told TR: “You have shown that you were accused of seduction and you have conclusively proved that you were guilty of rape.”65”
― Graham Allison, Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?—A Critical Examination of Historical Patterns Leading to War Between Great Powers

“E pur si muove."

(And yet it moves.)

(What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)”
― Galileo Galilei

“That's fine in practice, but will it work in theory?”
― Garret FitzGerald