Paterculus Famous Quotes
"His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it."
Paterculus Quotations
"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."
Quintilian
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy
"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam."
A Whitney Griswold
"I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings."
Mary Wortley Montagu
"If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now."
Ronald Reagan
"Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment."
Benjamin Franklin
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh
I went to a store and asked if they had anything to put under coasters.
Steven Wright
"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment."
Learned Hand
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi