An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Sir Winston Churchill)

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller)