Potior Potiri Quotes & Sayings

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. — Joe Wilson

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt. — David Graeber

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous. — Desiree Rogers

Eureka! Eureka!
Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown. — Archimedes

Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human. — Simon Sinek

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends. — Jonathan Swift

And here it is worth while remembering, since we are discussing Not Writing for Children, that neither the Sleeping Beauty nor Rumpelstiltzkin was really written for children. In fact, none of the fundamental fairy stories was ever written at all. They all arose spontaneously from the folk and were transmitted orally from generation to generation to unlettered listeners of all ages. — P.L. Travers

Life without knowledge is death in disguise ... — Talib Kweli