Porcius Quotes & Sayings

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks. — Carson McCullers

Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair ... it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized. — Aristotle.

The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts. — Marcus Porcius Cato

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying. — Bob Dylan

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. — Marcus Porcius Cato

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. — Marcus Porcius Cato

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union. — Gerhard Schroder

On Pt. K.L. Misra
Panditji lived a full life replete with achievements and honours. He was such a versatile and noble man that the like of him may not be born again. - Shanti Bhushan, Senior Advocate — Munindra Misra

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men. — Marcus Porcius Cato

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow. — George Eliot

When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun. — Christopher Mintz-Plasse

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. — Marcus Porcius Cato

He who hesitates is lost. — Marcus Porcius Cato

Holly: Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get twenty-four?
Artemis: I don't think Opal pays much attention to laws. — Eoin Colfer

They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,
how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long. — Henry David Thoreau

I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.' — Teddy Thompson

I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me the most I would say it was that one. — Megan Hart