Praetors Roman Quotes & Sayings

His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it! — Corrie Ten Boom

If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals. — Leo Tolstoy

It was soon evident in my lodgings that I had become a dangerous lunatic, and there would be nothing left to destroy if strong measures were not taken. So I was turned out of the house, but it was only into the garden, where I was allowed to build a small darkroom of oilcloth. — Henry Peach Robinson

Show me a quest for personal immortality and I'll show you a path through a slaughterhouse, and the incense of personal divinity is the stench of other people's corpses. — Barry Hughart

The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by
their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and all things to
have been cared for. According to Evelyn, "the wise Solomon prescribed
ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman praetors have
decided how often you may go into your neighbor's land to gather the
acorns which fall on it without trespass, and what share belongs to that
neighbor." Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our
nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor
longer. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have
exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. But man's
capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can
do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy
failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to
thee what thou hast left undone? — Henry David Thoreau

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman

Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot.
They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns. — Shay Caroline

If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier. — Enid Bagnold

Let your actions be ruled by your heart, not by your mind — Lakshmi

He's the only one of you that's ever tried to sneak up on a bad guy, and that was a million beers ago — Gary Hansen

It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea. — Patricia C. McKissack

Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open. — King Krule

I want you, I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I ache for you. — Tahereh Mafi