Desipere Quotes & Sayings

For what reasons would you waste your time on earth? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Fluttershyes are like regular shyes, only shinier, and, apparently - also shyer. Whenever petted - they don't flutter, but run away instead. — Will Advise

Corunda Base Hospital itself continued to function on doctors, nurses, domestic staff, food preparers, and ancillary staff in the same old way, so that the patients lived (or died) in relative ignorance of the drama going on at an executive level. Indeed, it was a rare patient even knew that a hospital had executives. — Colleen McCullough

My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party. — Sarah Rafferty

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results. — Mahatma Gandhi

Somewhere inside you, I hope you know who you are. I hope you know what you are. I hope you know that you're powerful. We need you. — Danielle Paige

Duke est desipere in loco [it is pleasant to act foolishly from time to time - a line from Horace]. — Stephen Jay Gould

The only safe rule, therefore, is that which Aristotle mentions in the last chapter of his Topica: not to dispute with the first person you meet, but only with those of your acquaintance of whom you know that they possess sufficient intelligence and self-respect not to advance absurdities; to appeal to reason and not to authority, and to listen to reason and yield to it; and, finally, to cherish truth, to be willing to accept reason even from an opponent, and to be just enough to bear being proved to be in the wrong, should truth lie with him. From this it follows that scarcely one man in a hundred is worth your disputing with him. You may let the remainder say what they please, for every one is at liberty to be a fool - desipere est jus gentium. — Arthur Schopenhauer