Dicit Latin Quotes & Sayings

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present. — Blaise Pascal

I preferred to read than talk with the others. — Hannah Kent

There's something profoundly disturbing about watching an old guy eat a sandwich. — Dana Gould

Life is full of crossroads, Alex. Full of choices. There are many paths we can take. It's up to us to decide which ones lead in the right direction. — Lynette Noni

Joe nodded. "We're required to report bullet wounds. — C.J. Box

Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power. — Walter J. Turner

Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine. (Hang on a minute and I'll get my sequins out and give you a quick rendition of 'My Way') — Julie Burchill

In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. — Douglas Adams

Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill. — Mike Pence

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory. — Leslie Fiedler

We shall sleep on moss for many nights, till the beasts of the body come to tear our body. We have no bed now, save the moss,and no future, save the beasts. — Ayn Rand

The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged. — Lord Chesterfield

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? — Oriana Fallaci

There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits — S. N. Behrman