Etruscans Romans Quotes & Sayings

This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning. — Seneca The Younger

Now we see again, under the blue heavens where the larks are singing in the hot April sky, why the Romans called the Etruscans vicious. Even in their palmy days the Romans were not exactly saints. But they thought they ought to be. They hated the phallus and the ark, because they wanted empire and dominion and, above all, riches: social gain. You cannot dance gaily to the double flute and at the same time conquer nations or rake in large sums of money. Delenda est Carthago. To the greedy man, everybody that is in the way of its greed is vice incarnate. — D.H. Lawrence

Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them for the honor they have done to the American name in every part of the globe. — Marquis De Lafayette

How can I ever miss you when you never go away? — Gloria Jones

The reality of time and change seemed to me the crux of realism. — Karl R. Popper

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Griffin's mother loathed grading papers, too, of course. Who didn't? But she was meticulous about correcting errors, offering style and content suggestions in the margins, asking pointed, often insulting, questions (How long did you work on this?) and then answering them herself (Not long, one hopes, given the result). — Richard Russo

I don't know which is worse - that Raffe didn't jump in to defend me, or that he bet that I would lose. — Susan Ee

It's just that we'd like to think that craziness and sanity are on opposite ends of an ocean, but really they're more like neighboring islands. — Gayle Forman

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you. — Dalai Lama XIV

I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill. — Matthew McConaughey

My favorite strategy is to feign inferiority and encourage my enemy's arrogance. — Jessica Knoll