Ciceronian Friendship Quotes & Sayings

The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts
Its click
Creates perpetual motion
("The Head") — Blaise Cendrars

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on. — Richard Carlson

Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything. — Margaret Way

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while. — George Steinbrenner

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable. — Barbara Jordan

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Now I am not being critical here, — Robert Cowan

Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies. — Christina Engela

Girls say they like a sensitive man, but then they complain about my premature ejaculation. — Tom Sims

There wasn't any point in dwelling in the pain of the past, not when the future could hold suck pleasure. — Abraham Verghese

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there. — Phindiwe Nkosi

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions? — Jane Austen

My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply. — Meryl Streep

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed. — Oswald Chambers

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores. — Moby