"It is obvious, however, that the whole human race is becomming shorter day by day and that few men are taller than their fathers." Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79) Natural History. Book VII
"I'm sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our schools is because they have no contact with anything of use in everyday life. All they get is pirates standing on the beach, dangling manacles, tyrants writing orders for sons to cut off their fathers' heads, oracles advising the sacrifice of three or more virgins during a plague...a mass of cloying verbaige: every word just so much poppycock." Petronius ( AD. 27-66 ) The Satyricon
"I am amazed, o' wall, that you have not collapsed and fallen, since you must bear the tedious stupidities of so many scrawlers."
Grafiitti at Pompeii
