Nefas Quotes & Sayings

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. — James Agate

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When all else fails, drink some tea. Really. You'll be amazed how many problems it can solve. We like to think of it as Buddha's whiskey. — Tara Cottrell

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas") — Horace

and isn't it the curse of the drifter, the desolation of heart we feel each evening at sundown, with the slow loop of the river out there just for a half a minute, catching the last light, pregnant with the city in all its density and wonder, the possibilities never to be counted, much less lived into, by the likes of us, don't you see, for we're only passing through, we're already ghosts. — Thomas Pynchon

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason. — Noah Webster

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system. — Alfred North Whitehead

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. — Ellen Willis

Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier"). — David Foster Wallace

Freedom you earn is more powerful than freedom handed to you. — Marissa Clarke