Moribus Modestus Quotes & Sayings

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those dreams I have at night are going to drive me crazy. Last night I dreamed that little red-haired girl and I were eating lunch together ... But she's gone ... She's moved away, and I don't know where she lives, and she doesn't know I even exist, and I'll never see her again ... And ... I wish men cried ... — Charles M. Schulz

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life. — Helen Fisher

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel. — Benjamin Franklin

The visible is always a mirror of the invisible. The reality is imagined before it manifests itself. — Paulo Coelho

There was another thought which a scanning of those tiny electronic headlines often invoked. The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry or depressing its contents seemed to be. Accidents, crimes, natural and man-made disasters, threats of conflict, gloomy editorials - these still seemed to be the main concern of the millions of words being sprayed into the ether. Yet Floyd also wondered if this was altogether a bad thing; the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. From — Arthur C. Clarke

The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's — John Bunyan

I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable. — Audre Lorde

Yossarian!!!(?)! — Joseph Heller

Every government is always growing corrupt. — Wendell Phillips

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player. — Pele