Quintilian Famous Quotes
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."
"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."
"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian Quotations
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Alan Bleasdale
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
Henry Ford
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."
Madonna
"Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too."
B B King
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
Polish Proverb
"The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband."
Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
"Facts are stubborn things and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence."
John Adams
Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.
Burmese Proverb
"There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution."
Michael Gartner