Latinised Quotes & Sayings

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom — Ezra Pound

We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going to smoke anyway.' We shouldn't be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception. — Jennifer Morse

Was memory like a river that slowed over time to a trickle? Or was it like a house with many rooms that became a house with fewer rooms and then finally just a single room you could never leave? Was that the worst fate in the world? It depended, Wyatt supposed, on what room you ended up in. — Lou Berney

I've experienced having you in the house. It's like living with a loud motor running all the time. Up, down, into this room and that room, eating supper, jumping from the table, cursing all the time, yelling over the telephone about things, laughing, making deals all the time. You take up a lot of space and make a lot of noise." She — Jane Smiley

The only reason you brought me here tonight was because you thought it would appease me. Throw the vicious dog a bone and it'll soon be eating out of your hand!"
"More like vicious bitch," he muttered beneath his breath and when he realised that she had heard him, he shrugged unrepentantly. "If you're going to be using animal metaphors, you may as well get it right."
"Fine, I'm a bitch ... whatever!" She knew her response was childish but she was feeling more than a little put out by the situation. — Natasha Anders

If you're the guy who basically shows up with coal at the locomotive, they will put it in the train. Like, they won't even assess whatever or not it's good coal.Just throw it in there. — Damon Lindelof

Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark, and, just as important, allowing me to read secretly, after my bedtime, using the dim hallway light to read by, if I needed to. I always needed to. — Neil Gaiman

inferred by the pattern to either side, the small pyramidal bumps rising from the flat steel with their crisp edges and flecks of paint. Holston lifted an old boot to an old step, pressed down, — Hugh Howey

He held her close and closed his eyes. "I would rather fail a thousand times with you than never take the chance."
"That's some line, Mr. Moore," she whispered beside him. "I might have to steal it and put it in one of my books."
"It's no line, Ms. Delome. It's the truth, even if it does sound like fiction. — Alexandrea Weis

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. — Catherine Doherty

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest. — Amy Carmichael

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it. — Abby Elliott

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play. — Thomas Hardy

There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find. — Jack D. Schwager

No half measures, he muttered several times. It was his personal motto; he intended to have it latinised and put on a crest. — Larry McMurtry

Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature. — Jeff VanderMeer