Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

Horace

The words can not return.

Horace

Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

Horace

I shall not completely die.

Horace

No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

Horace

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

Horace

The same night awaits us all.

Horace

The glory is for those who deserve.

Horace

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

Horace

I want to live, and die with you.

Horace

Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

Horace

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

Horace

While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

Horace

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

Horace

Don't carry logs into the forest.

Horace

He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

Horace

I was what you are, you will be what I am.

Horace

There is a middle ground in things.

Horace

I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

Horace

Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

Horace

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

Hank Azaria

Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.

Hannah Arendt

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

Guy Deutscher

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

Guy de Maupassant

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

Gottfried Leibniz

These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws; and they agree with each other in virtue of the pre-established harmony between all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.

Gore Vidal

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

Gore Vidal

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

Gore Vidal

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

Gore Vidal

Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.

Gore Vidal

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized...

Gillian Jacobs

I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!

Gerhard Richter

I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.