Sniffspot Quotes & Sayings

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. — Pope Pius II

Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones. — Caroline Wozniacki

Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him ... These things I know, Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. Well, let me tell you, the white heat of truth comes from another flame. — Umberto Eco

No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine. — Hermann Hesse

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen

True love opens the gates of time. — Neil Young

Expectations were never in
short supply.
"Do you want to know?" he asked.
"I suppose it depends on the answer."
"Which answer would you prefer?"
"I'm not really sure. Both leave a lot to be desired. — Lorraine Heath

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak. — Seneca The Younger

The Church is a virgin, the bride of one Spouse, Who is Christ, and this Church does not allow herself to be violated by any error; so that, throughout the whole world there may be for us one uncorruptedness of a single chaste communion. — Pope Leo I