Horatian Vs Juvenalian Quotes & Sayings

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular. — Anatole Broyard

Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more! He — Charles Dickens

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim. — George Clooney

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms. — Robert Jastrow

He had come to the conclusion that, as the earth consisted of land and water, so human life was made up of eatings and beatings. — Rabindranath Tagore

I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway. — Richard Flanagan

You okay there, Polterdouche?"
"You look like a girl," he stammers.
I promptly flip him off. — Sherry D. Ficklin

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar. — Sue Grafton

People would be shocked to know ... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy. — James Lafferty

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. — Bohdi Sanders

The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure. — Andre Maurois

I read somewhere that the hair and fingernails on dead bodies don't actually grow, it just looks like they do because the skin contracts as the body dries out. So it's possible to lie even in death, to deceive people from beyond the — Robyn Schneider

In any situation, there is hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time. — Chris Ofili

The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so. — John Locke