Date: 360-355 B.C.
"When we are babies we must suppose this receptacle empty, and take the birds to stand for pieces of knowledge."
preview | full record— Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Date: 1759
"If you, these moral Truths, would comprehend, / To moral Writers, your Attention lend; / By reading them, you'll Wisdom's Honey gain, / And with her golden Stores, inrich your Brain."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: January 19, 1791
"But it is then, and basking in the sunshine of unmerited fortune, that low, sordid, ungenerous, and reptile souls swell with their hoarded poisons; it is then that they display their odious splendour, and shine out in full lustre of their native villainy and baseness."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: February 20, 2000
"I sometimes fancy that various archetypal situations circled tirelessly in Hitchcock's mind, like whales in a tank at the zoo."
preview | full record— Ebert, Roger (1942-2013)
Date: March, 2014
"Memory, / a jar of flies. Spin off the lid."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)