Quotes to inspire and reflect

Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum;

Ultima Thule.

Non omnia possumus omnes.

Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori

Ambo florentes aetatibus, Arcades ambo,

Nunc scio quid sit Amor.

Latet anguis in herba.

Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas;

Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.

Experto credite.

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.

Geniumque loci primamque deorum Tellurem Nymphasque et adhuc ignota precatur Flumina.

Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus

Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.

Facilis descensus Averno:

Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum

Hos successus alit: possunt, quia posse videntur. These success encourages: they can because they think they can.

Bella, horrida bella,

Varium et mutabile semper Femina.

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.

Dis aliter visum.

Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,

Equo ne credite, Teucri.

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

Dux femina facti.

Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram.

of Truman Capote ’s death:

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Il pleure dans mon coeur

I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Laughter … the most civilized music in the world.

The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and … he does it without destroying something else.

Neutrinos, they are very small

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

La vida es duda,

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

The innocents abroad.

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.