Saint Ambrose Famous Quotes
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
Saint Ambrose Quotations
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
P J O Rourke
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
Horace
They talk most who have the least to say.
Matthew Prior
"At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel."
Leon Botstein
"Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
W S Gilbert
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson
"If you want something said, ask a man if you want something done, ask a woman."
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
"'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'."
H G Wells
"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm."
Henry Truman