Probat Quotes & Sayings

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them. — Nelson Mandela

I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, your guy friends are very important; they're the guys that are always going to be there. It's just you being a friend to me and I'm being a friend to you. — Brody Jenner

I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing. — Michael Pitt

the trees were putting on their September garments, brown and red and yellow, — Jeff VanderMeer

In the background she can hear the shopping carts performing their clashy, anal copulations. — Neal Stephenson

Exitus Acta Probat---the outcome justifies the deed. — Billy McCoy

Hmm," Mistress Coyle hmms. — Patrick Ness

When the first task completes, consider whether to cancel the remaining tasks. If the other tasks are not canceled but are also never awaited, then they are abandoned. Abandoned tasks will run to completion, and their results will be ignored. Any exceptions from those abandoned tasks will also be ignored. — Stephen Cleary

There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The result justifies the deed
(Exitus acta probat) — Ovid

She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld the fundamental principle of judicial review over the exercise of government power. — Patrick Leahy

Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. — Seneca.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty. — Michael Moore

My tears are like a whole pack of dogs on leashes; no matter how I try to tug them back, they just keep barreling forward. — Holly Schindler

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists. — Richard Dawkins