Teubner Classical Texts Quotes & Sayings

I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest. — Lawrence Hill

Learning to think, read, and write like an American. I didn't want to just wait till I picked it up. One weekend a couple — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures. — Erica Goros

Every man's death is a standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love that man who stands for us. We are not waiting for his history to be written. He passed here long ago. That man who is all men and who stands in the dock for us until our own time come and we must stand for him. Do you love him, that man? Will you honor the path he has taken? Will you listen to his tale? — Cormac McCarthy

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
Nothing endures but change. — Heraclitus

Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun
1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else. — Shannon L. Alder

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night. — Tim Robbins

They danced on the shore in marvelous, civilized, humorous reels in which the old contributed wit when they could not contribute grace, and the young listened to their elders, who told them in their dancing to hold on, to love, to be patient, and most of all, to trust. — Mark Helprin

To be a human being is to be a child of God — M. Bartolo-Abela