—  Louis XV of France, King of France

     (his last words)

—  Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer

     (in a TV show; he claimed later that he had actually said “6 months”)

—  Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957

—  Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher

—  Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher

—  Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President

—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

—  Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor

—  Northcote Parkinson, 1909-1993, British historian

—  Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer

—  Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

—  Quintilian, 35-96 AD, Roman rhetorician

—  William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Henry IV

—  Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President

—  Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician

—  Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president

—  Joseph Roux, 1834-1905, French clergyman & poet

—  Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher

—  Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher

—  Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement

—  John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach

—  Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953

—  Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer

—  Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter

—  Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary

—  Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer

—  Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer

—  Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

—  Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist

—  Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer

—  Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer

—  Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950, Italian writer

—  Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658, Spanish writer

Veritas odit moras.

—  Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher

Lente hora, celeriter anni.

—  Medieval Sundial motto

Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.

—  Martial, 43-104 AD, Roman poet of epigrams

Potius sero quam numquam.

—  Titus Livius, 59 BC-17 AD, Roman historian

—  Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, American columnist

—  Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian

Επί δείπνα των φίλων βραδέως πορεύου, επί δε τας ατυχίας ταχέως.

—  Chilon of Sparta, 6th cent. BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece

Οι δε των πραγμάτων ού μένουσι καιροί την ημετέραν βραδύτητα και ειρωνείαν.

—  Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator

Αγών ου μένει άνδρας λελειμμένους.

—  Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Glaucus of Pontus

Η φύσις ουδέν ποιεί άλματα.

—  Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Eπειχθήναι μεν νυν παν πρήγμα τίκτει σφάλματα.

—  Herodotus, 480-420 BC, Ancient Greek historian, the “ father of History”

—  English proverb

—  International proverb

—  International proverb

—  International proverb

—  from the film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)