Lampis Quotes & Sayings

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor. — Epictetus

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle. — Richard Le Gallienne

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman

Curing RM is in the realm of magical pixies and talking dogs that piss whiskey. It's impossible. — Dan Wells

I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents. — Charles Darwin

Emma showed me how life can heal the cracks in our armor with people put in our path. — Shelly Crane

Dare to love greatly. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You haven't known terror until you've been chased by a man-sized crow. — Austin Grossman

Believe that some kids who are in the middle to more high-functioning range of the autism continuum, like me, do not receive the proper stimulation and end up turning inward to such an extent that they can't function in society, even though they may be incredibly brilliant in some narrowly defined field, like abstract mathematics. — John Elder Robison

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen. — Erik Hersman

For one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them? — Parke Godwin

Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily. — Sivananda

To say that he 'nailed a subject's soul to the canvas' makes the assumption that we persons, as well as artists, can see one another's souls.
Maybe we do. Maybe we all have the ability to perceive another's soul, and do so every day, only we take it for granted, and don't even know it when we're doing it. We call it knowing someone's 'character' or 'personality. — Lynn Cullen

It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond. — Wale

Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour. — Plutarch

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth. — Ralph Venning