Comments on: Maybe It Was Dana Plato?

By: Human Trend » Matthew Continetti Provokes Nausea

Human Trend » Matthew Continetti Provokes Nausea — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:14:42 +0000

[...] Curse you, Julian Sanchez. [...]

By: Brad Johnson

Brad Johnson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:18:18 +0000

It turns out the quotation is actually from A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World, a 1670 etiquette guide, wherein it explains that that the true measure of a “man’s disposition” can be found by gambling against him: "If you would read a man’s Disposition, see him Game, you will then learn more of him in one hour, than in seven Years Conversation, and little Wagers will try him as soon as great Stakes, for then he is off his Guard."

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:06:30 +0000

“Corruption” being the key word in this discussion of Sarah Palin’s new pastime, misquoting General McArthur, Newt Gingrich, and Plato.

Palin is crookeder than a corkscrew pasta.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:03:41 +0000

It is almost certainly not from Plato, but it could be a corruption of various things he says in the LAWS or the STATESMAN – where play is important as a means of “testing” character.

By: Kevin B. O'Reilly

Kevin B. O'Reilly — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:01:08 +0000

We’re lucky she didn’t quote the lyrics to the “Diff’rent Strokes” theme song, wise though they are.

By: Julian Sanchez

Julian Sanchez — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:02:07 +0000

So we should attribute it to Plataõ?

By: chrismealy

chrismealy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:58:26 +0000

Looks like it’s an old Portuguese proverb: Mais descobre huma hora de jogo, que hum anno de conversação

http://books.google.com/books?id=WWoVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA281&dq=%22mais+descobre+huma+hora+de+jogo%22&ei=faJLSvWNLJL4lQTuprCkCw&client=safari

By: Neil the Ethical Werewolf

Neil the Ethical Werewolf — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:39:31 +0000

Yeah, I’m feeling the apocryphal here too.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:37:55 +0000

Should we really be surprised by the revelation that Sarah Palin’s knowledge of Plato is obviously gleaned from online quotation pages?

As Keynes once wrote, “the past is history, the future a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why they call it the ‘present.’”

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:05:50 +0000

You’re right, he’s an unlikely candidate for disparaging the socratic method method, but then Palin’s an unlikely candidate for quoting Plato. I propose that you can learn more reading Plato than you can seeing him quoted.