Maecenas Quotes & Sayings

If as spiritual practitioners we ignore the discoveries of science, our practice is also impoverished, as this mind-set can lead to fundamentalism. — Dalai Lama XIV

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care. — Phil Bredesen

You, my dear, have already found your meaning. All there is left to do now ... is dance. — Colleen Hoover

Muy Peligroso!" Bernie's choices had become as limited as the Taco Bell menu. Reason and blood had left the building, heading south, faster than reprobates to Florida." - Shark Fin Soup 2015 — Fred Barnett

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
[Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem,
Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa
Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.] — Horace

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time. — Demetri Martin

Would you not like to fill up a whole note-book at the street crossings when you see a forger borne along upon the necks of six porters, and exposed to view on this side and on that in his almost naked litter, and reminding you of the lounging Maecenas: one who by help of a scrap of paper and a moistened seal has converted himself into a fine and wealthy gentleman? — Juvenal

Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing. — Suzanne Collins

When you ask for the house, car, cat, dog and all the fish when you're dealing with a player who's got questions about his health, no GM in his right mind is going to say yes and offer to clean the aquarium, too. — Eric Lindros

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more. — Carlos Fuentes

Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn't fit in ... .I'd stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That's when I started to realize there's this thing called rejection. — Taylor Swift