291 quotes found
Lyric poet (65–8 BC) · Roman
Roman lyric poet (65–8 BC)
“Don't think, just do.”
“Think positive, Butch.”
“Faults are soon copied.”
“Well begun is half done.”
“Now is the time to drink!”
“Anger is a brief madness.”
“Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possess...”
“He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.”
“It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is no...”
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
“Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith”
“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
“Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. ”
“It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.”
“In love there are two evils: war and peace.”
“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”
“he who is greedy is always in want”
“In science, mistakes always precede the truth.”
“The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
“Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.”
“Consumers are whats going to change the world, not necessarily industries or governments,”
“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
“I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.”
“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
