Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")
Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.