If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
Georg C. LichtenbergTo do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Georg C. LichtenbergOne is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg