Funny Latin Phrases Quotes & Sayings

"It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together with Hellenism and Christianity is an inalienable component of our Christian Western civilization, the eternal "call to Sinai" against which humanity again and again rebels." — Hermann Rauschning

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver

It makes sense that the Obamas both deplore the 1 percenters and seek to rub shoulders with them at Martha's Vineyard or Vail. — Anonymous

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings. — Hal Duncan

Load poems like guns -
war's geography calls you
to arms.
The enemy has no signs,
counter-signs,
colors
signals
symbols!
Load poems like guns -
each moment is loaded
with bombs
bullets
blasts
death-sounds -
death and war
don't follow rules
you can make your pages into white flags
a thousand times
but swallow your words, say no more.
Load your poems -
your body -
your thoughts -
like guns.
The schoolhouses of war rise up
within you.
Maybe you are next. — Farzana Marie

Likewise the mind that aims to understand reality can consider itself satisfied only by reducing it to terms of thought. — Albert Camus

In the late 1970s, business cards were just being reintroduced in China. I received one which stated, in English: The responsible person of the department concerned. KAREL KOVANDA Brussels — Anonymous

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. — Sylvia Plath