It may never be possible to prove W.H. Auden's dictum that "time...worships language".
One underlying problem is dysfunctional politics: countries that got into trouble because they could not reform in the good times are still struggling in bad ones.The north must reform tooKeynes's dictum that the time for austerity is during a boom, not a bust, also applies to structural reform.
To subsist neither by preaching nor destroying but by following the modest proverb that tells us to make do and mend: that seems like a manageable dictum for our times.
These accounts have shed light on some puzzling tactical errors but most reflect the time-honoured dictum that victory has a thousand fathers while defeat is an orphan - everyone involved with the campaign can point to some mistake someone else made, in order to exculpate him or herself.
Filthy Dukes - Tupac Robot Club Rock Filthy Dukes return with a fine examplar of the time-honoured dictum: "If it's crap, just add rap!" According to the band's blog, the song came about after a lengthy period of soul-searching.
It was Charles Lyell (1832) who argued for the relevance of organismic distributional information to the fields of biology and geology, and he invoked the famous dictum "As in space, so in time".
It could be, I suspect, that the Official Reporters - themselves fine and noble - regarded the former FM's comment at the time as an obiter dictum, heard in court but not legally binding nor setting a precedent.
Holzman quotes Jean-Luc Godard's famous dictum about cinema being truth twenty-four times a second, but enacts Jean Cocteau's statement about it being "death at work".
Taken together, that movie and "Children of the Century" reverse Karl Marx's dictum that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Boy! 44 Still framed at Time is Hadden's scrawled dictum: "Let Subscriber Goodkind mend his ways!" 55 Two pounds, nine ounces.
