Seven In Latin Quotes & Sayings

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage. — Mark Twain

This body that we inhabit for a day, and then leave, we take good care of; we feed it three times a day, and we clothe it, and take care of it, and deck it, and by and by it is going into the grave to be eaten up by the worms; but the inner man, that is to live on and on, and on forever, is lean and starved. SWEET — D.L. Moody

There you have the definition of being human: we don't want new things, we want things that feel new. — James Marquess

So yeah, we put llamas everywhere. That was us. We just liked looking at them, so we bred about six million and spread them around. — Dave Eggers

Ella, if it's magic, then nothing is supposed to happen. — Brad Barkley

I walk in and out of several worlds every day. — Joy Harjo

I am a teller of stories ... a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven words of Latin. I have a little magic and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, can fight dirty but not fair, and once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic. I am a luxury, and in that sense, necessary. — Anthony Minghella

We are punished by our sins, not for them. — Elbert Hubbard

As Petrus Alfonsi, the converted physician authored a book called the Disciplina Clericalis, which was essentially a collection of Arabic tales translated into Latin. These tales introduced a mode of Oriental storytelling and wisdom literature into Christendom that would become extremely popular. In the section called "The Mule and the Fox," concerning the true nature of nobility, Alfonsi listed seven accomplishments expected of a knight. "The skills that one must be acquainted with are as follows: Riding, swimming, archery, boxing, hawking, chess, and verse writing."6 So, by the beginning of the twelfth century, chess had become a mandatory skill for Spain's elite warriors. — Marilyn Yalom

Much as slavery in the United States was part of a larger Atlantic Slave System, so America's War of Independence was an outgrowth of Europe's Seven Years' War - from 1756 to 1763 - and also a precursor or harbinger of the French and Haitian revolutions and of the subsequent Latin American wars for independence from Spain. — David Brion Davis

Mick McCarthy will have to replace Cascarino because he's quickly running out of legs. — Mark Lawrenson

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent. — Clotilde Hesme