Coelum Quotes & Sayings

Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried.
[Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori
Coelum, negata tentat iter via.] — Horace

As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie" I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me ... Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence. — Don McLean

You can call me Seth, you know." She shrugged. "You used to." She used to do other things with him too. Like laugh and touch and make small talk. "Jack always called you Murphy. I got used to it. — Denise Hunter

In the classical theory of gravity, which is based on real space-time, there are only two possible ways the universe can behave: either it has existed for an infinite time, or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past. — Stephen Hawking

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est;
Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.] — Horace

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. — Arthur Helps

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
[Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.] — Horace

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. — Thomas De Quincey

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state. — Sathya Sai Baba

I seem to have excalibured this knife. — Diana Wynne Jones

THE BASIC CON

Those who can't find anything to live for,
always invent something to die for.
Then they want the rest of us to
die for it, too. — Lew Welch

I think of my novels as entertainments. — Stephen Carter

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.] — Juvenal