Digna Quotes & Sayings

Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.
[Lat., An erit, qui velle recuset
Os populi meruisse? et cedro digna locutus
Linquere, nec scombros metuentia carmina nec thus.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

Swing easy and hit hard. — Julius Boros

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school. — Rob Lowe

I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living. — Will Self

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less. — William Faulkner

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.] — Horace

These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all. — Tama Kieves

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away. — Jane Kenyon

When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals. — Ian McLagan

And now they say my heart is failing. The doctor used the term "angina pectoris," which has a theological sound, like misericordia. — Marilynne Robinson

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. — George Bernard Shaw

Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other? ... Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225 — Sheri Dew

Do I make you nervous?"
His gaze travels from my eyes to my breasts and down to where my dress meets my thighs. "In that dress you do. — Simone Elkeles

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.) — Horace

Never Doubt
There comes a moment when you begin to realize that virtually anything is possible - that nothing is too good to be true. — Kobi Yamada