Martinus Quotes & Sayings

A Roman centurion walks into a bar and orders a martinus.

The bartender says, "Don't you mean a martini?"

The centurion answers, "If I wanted a double I would have ordered it. — Harlan Wolff

I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at least some reminder of legacy. — Bryan Stevenson

In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to a complex wheel-work, such as a watch which ceases to exist if it is stamped down in a mortar. No, in its primitive form life is like fire, like a flame borne by the living substance;-like a flame which appears in endless diversity and yet has specificity within it;-which can adopt the form of the organic world, of the lank grass-leaf and of the stem of the tree. — Martinus Beijerinck

In the spring, a middle-aged man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of gardening. — Richard Martinus

..his tone, like warm maple syrup, drizzled down her spine and licked all the way back up. — Jasmine Haynes

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741), a scurrilous burlesque, written mostly by John Arbuthnot, that poked fun at Grub Street twittishness. He chose this indelicate item because it was a source of interesting words like 'chicanery', 'confidant', 'troglodyte' and 'piazza', and even the distinctly modern-sounding 'skylight'. — Henry Hitchings

Julius Caesar walks into a bar. "I'll have a martinus," he says. The bartender — Various

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's. — Stephen Colbert

I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth. — Angus T. Jones

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace. — William Barclay

Slippers was asleep on the bed, curled up and blissfully oblivious to her suffering as cats usually were. — Amy Hutchinson

I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin. — James Franco