Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

Arthur Erickson

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Benjamin Tucker

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

C. Wright Mills

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Jeff Cook

Rome is burning, and they don't seem to get it. I don't think they understand the severity of the problem.

Augustus

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Benito Mussolini

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

Juvenal

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Chip Conley

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

David Hume

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

Marc Berman

We've already seen what (Clark) looks like. The curiosity factor is gone.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

William Shakespeare

Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

Benny Carter

I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.

Charles Lyell

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Judy Jones

It's kind of always been a curiosity for the scientists.

Yiddish Proverbs

A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.

Scott Swaney

As a courtesy, we will let people display their (antique) bikes. There will be a wide variety of stuff for sale and on display ? all makes.

Fat Joe

Thanks for all the police protection -- courtesy of G-Unit.

H. Hunt

The winner of the Prince and Princess of the Patch will each receive a $50 savings bond, courtesy of Bancroft State Bank.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Baltasar Gracian

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Lewis Carroll

Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

Wang Yusheng

Courtesy demands reciprocity and this is essential in relations between countries.

Proverbs

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.