Cornelius Tacitus Famous Quotes
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
"He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion."
It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
I am my nearest neighbour.
"In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue."
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
"Keen at the start, but careless at the end."
Cornelius Tacitus Quotations
"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament."
William Wordsworth
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell
"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return."
Salman Rushdie
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S Patton
"Benjamin Hey, who wants Chinese Takeout I know a great place Wayne I'll have the cream of sum yung guy."
Wayne s World
"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."
Jim
"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language."
William Osler
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution, but restoration."
Warren G Harding