Hortensius Cicero Quotes & Sayings

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink. — Robin McKinley

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners. — Robert Grosseteste

You have truly gained the mastery of the very stronghold of philosophy, Mother. For without doubt only for lack of words you did not elaborate on this subject as did Tullius [Cicero], whose words will follow. For in the Hortensius, the book he wrote on the praise and defense of philosophy, he said: 'But see, surely not the philosophers but all given to argument say that those who live just as they wish are happy.' This is definitely false; for to want what is not appropriate is the worst of all miseries. It is not so miserable not to get what you want as to want to get what you ought not. Wickedness of will brings to everyone greater evil than good fortune brings good. — Augustine Of Hippo

a lot easier to seize the day than it is to seize a Tuesday. You have errands on Tuesday. On Tuesday you eat pizza again. Your favorite TV show is on Tuesday, you know? — Adi Alsaid

There was a shortage of soft furnishings and I'm sorry to say I was forced to use hard liquor. — D.L. Christopher

My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it. — John Holdren

He did not accept the good news of God; he strained it to his heart, and was jubilant over it. — George MacDonald

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem. — Mason Cooley

People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more then they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime. — Virginia Woolf

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title. — Adam Lambert

Julia Woodhull was many things: a lady of secrets, a patriot's niece, and a dead man's daughter. But one thing Julia Woodhull was most certainly not was a fool. — Katlyn Charlesworth

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it. — Margaret Halsey

The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day. — Fanny Kemble