Meruisse Quotes & Sayings

Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.
[Lat., An erit, qui velle recuset
Os populi meruisse? et cedro digna locutus
Linquere, nec scombros metuentia carmina nec thus.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them ... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex. — Ken Kesey

Stabbings, shooting, rapes, homicides -- the denizens of places like the Elk brought those crimes along with them the way ordinary travelers carried luggage. — Linda Fairstein

The best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life. — Richard G. Scott

Perversion is a sleeping monster; art is a fanning mistress. Art serves the perversion that is deep and often dormant within human beings. — Thiruman Archunan

Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole. — Otto Scharmer