[Apropos of nothing … SB SM]
Quiz Answers
Everyone on this list lived in Vienna.
(i) Mozart was a truly a great musician. Friends often flatter me that I have some genius. But he stood far above me. — Joseph Haydn
(ii) Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
(iii) Let them eat cake. — Marie Antoinette
(iv) Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud
(v) In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. — Karl Popper
(vi) I was the highest-priced and most important star in Hollywood, but I was ‘difficult’. — Hedy Lamarr
And the most telling of Shakespeare’s maxims = from A Midsummer Night’s Dream…”what fools these mortals be!”
Here’s another good one, suggested by SB Stuart of the Santa Fe SBs “Who knew the old man had so much blood in him (Macbeth).” I like this quote, because it applies to so many of us.