Ennius Latin Quotes & Sayings

When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn't believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round - I mean you can't follow an act like that. — Mick Jagger

Yet still we hug the dear deceit. — Nathaniel Cotton

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance. — Don Rickles

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The best way to feel family is being part of it. — Valgame

There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie. — Dennis Christopher

The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas ... Facts were not permitted to fetter the views they espoused, and the restraints of objective journalistic credibility were discarded by pamphleteers bent on promoting subjective slant to an insatiable general public for whom political dissonance was an integral part of social interaction. — Gavin John Adams

I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street. — Ben Nelson

We mustn't give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow. — Irene Hunt

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. — Robert Breault

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism. — Quintus Ennius

I am always wondering about love. — Jeanette Winterson

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. — Thomas Jefferson

I write in the studio. — Macy Gray

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. — Martin Van Buren

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre. — Quintus Ennius

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom. — Paulo Coelho