Moribus Antiquis Quotes & Sayings

Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception; within the parameters of their agreement with reality. Save your energy. — Steve Maraboli

Movie makers now choose profit over vision. — Shirley Maclaine

It's actually been more like a 50-year interruption, he thought. A boy goes out fishing and has a lot of fun, and then suddenly one day his whole boring adult life starts up, with all its obligations. Fifty years later the interruption is finally over, and he can go back to fishing again. — Vidar Sundstol

In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes. — Erik Larson

The most effective leader is the one who satisfies the psychological needs of his followers. — David Ogilvy

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. — Samuel Johnson

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations
fear. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management - this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate. — Richard Branson

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. — John Coltrane

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think. — Marcus Aurelius