Dioscorides Quotes & Sayings

if money go before, all ways do lie open. — William Shakespeare

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy. — John Milton

Dioscorides, an expert on medicinal plants, had ample material on which to base a pioneering treatise on bubonic plague. — Stacy Schiff

Will you look at this," Grandma said. "Closed casket. Isn't this a fine howdy-do. I get dressed up and come out to pay my respects, and I don't even get to see anything."
Martha Deeter was shot and autopsied. They'd taken her brain out to get weighed. After she was put back together she probably looked like Frankenstein. I was personally relieved to see a closed casket. — Janet Evanovich

I wandered the sidewalk watching all the street performers doing their juggling acts, playing their musical instruments, busting their asses to avoid work. I liked that. But I wanted to tell them there were easier ways to avoid work, like cab driving. — Gary Reilly

Flex that muscle in your heart. The important thing is that it becomes your compass... — Susie Buffett

We want to fight."
"And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that's never going to happen," I said blithely. — Laura Kreitzer

I always know where the scissors are. — Dan O'Brien

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I want things that I can name, and some things that I can't. I want this one moment to last forever, but I don't want to miss all the other moments to come. I want our entire future together, but I want it here and now. — Nicola Yoon

It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall. — Jim Parsons

Vimes' glare ran from face to face, causing most of the squad to do an immediate impression of the Floorboard and Ceiling Inspectors Synchronised Observation Team. — Terry Pratchett

....if you wanted something enough, you'd be willing to stand and fight for it, even if you got beat down. — Sam Crescent

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated. — Napoleon Bonaparte