Eubulus J Quotes & Sayings

I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. — Gautama Buddha

My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them. — Charlie Hunnam

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. — Irwin Shaw

Thunderstorms were common in Sarantium on midsummer nights, sufficiently so to make plausible the oft-repeated tale that the Emperor Apius passed to the god in the midst of a towering storm, with lightning flashing and rolls of thunder besieging the Holy City. Even Pertennius of Eubulus, writing only twenty years after, told the story this way, adding a statue of the Emperor toppling before the bronze gates to the Imperial Precinct and an oak tree split asunder just outside the landward walls. Writers of history often seek the dramatic over the truth. It is a failing of the profession. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm about to kiss Josselyn Winters," he says, a light laugh escaping him. "Holy shit." I — Ginger Scott

Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens. — Ed Thigpen

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: We have money like manure. — Franz Grillparzer

If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear is the case), we may observe that Isaiah's testimony to the character of the masses has strong collateral support from respectable Gentile authority. Plato lived into the administration of Eubulus, when Athens was at the peak of its jazz-and-paper era, and he speaks of the Athenian masses with all Isaiah's fervency, even comparing them to a herd of ravenous wild beasts. — Albert J. Nock