Athulf Quotes & Sayings

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It is not violence that best overcomes hate
nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. — Charlotte Bronte

With the exception of humans, all the great apes today are facing oblivion. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Peter - do please be happy. I mean, you've always been the comfortable sort of person that nothing could touch. Don't alter, will you?" That was the second time Wimsey had been asked not to alter himself; the first time, the request had exalted him; this time, it terrified him. As the taxi lurched along the rainy Embankment, he felt for the first time the dull and angry helplessness which is the first warning stroke of the triumph of mutability. Like the poisoned Athulf in the Fool's Tragedy, he could have cried, "Oh, I am changing, changing, fearfully changing." Whether his present enterprise failed or succeeded, things would never be the same again. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being. — Luke Evans

Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds. — Aaron Levie

if Newton is the finger, Leibniz is the stone, and they press against each other with equal and opposite force, a little bit harder every day. RAVENSCAR: — Neal Stephenson

I wanted to write some words you'd remember.

Words so alert they'd leap from the paper,
crawl up your shoulder, lie by your ears,
and purr themselves to you like baby kittens,
but it was rainy, so I laid there and daydreamed about you. — C.L. Foster

When you are down, the only place to go is up.
-Pontius Joseph — Pontius Joseph

The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. — Charles Spurgeon

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances. — Tommy Chong

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out. — Hammurabi

But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible! — Timur Vermes