Mendax Translation Quotes & Sayings

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused. — Charles I Of England

When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are no fixed points in space, — Merce Cunningham

My only explanation for our cheeky ambition is this: Being surrounded by pet-supply e-tailors worth more than IBM has a way of getting your sense of what's possible all out of whack. The old millennium was dying; a better one was on its way. We were in our mid-twenties, and we had no idea what we were doing. But we knew we loved books. And so we set out to write them. — Chris Baty

Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous. — Gary Ross

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous. — Confucius

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty. — Irwin Redlener

It doesn't matter if you win or lose, until you lose — Lanny Bassham

I guess that's what you get when your relationship starts by betraying someone - a never-ending well of doubt. If we could do it to someone, it could be done to us. — Anonymous

After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's no less absurd and presumptuous to try on the skin of a bank teller than that of a Bigfoot or a dragon. — Peter S. Beagle