Aliquid Quotes & Sayings

I used to think love was bound by numbers: first kisses, second dances, infinite heartbreaks. I used to think numbers outlasted the love itself, surviving in the dark corners of the demolished heart. I used to think love was heavy and hard.
I don't think those things anymore. — David Arnold

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
[Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] — Ovid

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well. — Lawrence Durrell

Murder is terribly exhausting. — Albert Camus

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. — Alberto Manguel

You can wear black in any moment of the day, no matter your age. You can wear black with almost any occasion. A black dress is essential for every woman. — Christian Dior

Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.] — Lucretius

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit (402). — Jonathan Franzen

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
[Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.] — Plautus

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away. — Lee Kuan Yew

The woman did not sob nor weep. She had gone to a place where tears are dry; but every one around her was, in some way characteristic of themselves, showing signs of hearty sympathy. — Harriet Beecher Stowe