Octavius Caesar Quotes & Sayings

Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away. — Julia Quinn

I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag. — Rick Smolan

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The key to success is having no qualms about failure. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption. — John Stuart Mill

Letter from Philippus of Athens to Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Yet the Empire of Rome that [Octavius] created has endured the harshness of a Tiberius, the monstrous cruelty of a Caligula, and the ineptness of a Claudius. And now our new Emperor is one whom you tutored as a boy, and to whom you remain close in his new authority; let us be thankful for the fact that he will rule in the light of your wisdom and virtue, and let us pray to the gods that, under Nero, Rome will at last fulfill the dream of Octavius Caesar. — John Edward Williams

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes — Rajiv Gandhi

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good. — James McAvoy

I'm not sure that love is an excuse for everything — Siri Hustvedt

I am, of course, aware that for over two hundred years scholars have laboured to keep history and theology, or history and faith, at arm's length from one another. There is a good intention behind this move: each of these disciplines has its own proper shape and logic, and cannot simply be turned into a branch of the other. — N. T. Wright

The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain. — Phil Ochs

And his mother, especially as Botticelli had painted her and Auge carved her, seemed like a perfectly nice goddess. — Jo Walton

There is no road of flowers leading to glory. — Jean De La Fontaine

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly. — William Cavendish