Scribonius Curio Quotes & Sayings

He refused tea, but Mrs. Crowley poured out a cup and handed it to him. 'You need not drink it, but I insist on your hoding it in your hand. I hat people who habitually deny themselves things. — W. Somerset Maugham

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. — C.S. Lewis

Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies.
(Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong.) — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God. — John Muir

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'. — Ryan Stiles

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion. — Leonardo Da Vinci

O Lord, I thank you for the gift of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of the spectrum and start believing that this is the only frequency that counts or is real. While outside, all up and down the land, there are these wonderful colors and x-rays and ultraviolets going on. — Thomas Pynchon

Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean. — Benvenuto Cellini