Margaric Quotes & Sayings

So vile a thing is a lie that even if it spoke fairly of God it would take away somewhat from His divinity; and so excellent a thing is truth that if it praises the humblest things they are exalted. — Leonardo Da Vinci

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted. — Jean Vanier

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. — Philip Sidney

From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance? — Auguste Laurent

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person. — Libby Trickett

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. — Pope Francis