Lucretius Famous Quotes
"What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven."
"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
Nothing can be created from nothing.
Lucretius Quotations
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
Homer
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen."
Homer
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
George Bernard Shaw
"Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another."
Joseph Addison
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K Jerome
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident."
Horace Walpole