Peter Brodie Famous Quotes
"What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows."
"One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day."
There is a negative proof of the value of Latin No one seems to boast of not knowing it.
Peter Brodie Quotations
"But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail."
Mary Bertone
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Judith Martin
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Jim Rohn
It is a great thing to know our vices.
Cicero
"In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)"
George Will
"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
Barbara Tuchman
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
The Talmud
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
Charles Du Bos
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
Isaac Friedmann
It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine.
Richard Jefferies