Quotes to inspire and reflect

Avarice, the spur of industry.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

It took the whole of Creation

… With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox,

I got the Weary Blues

I’ve known rivers:

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

I, too, sing America.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Etiam disiecti membra poetae.

Hoc erat in votis: modus agri non ita magnus,

… Mutato nomine de te

Est modus in rebus.

Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:

Non sum qualis eram bonae

Exegi monumentum aere perennius.

Non omnis moriar.

O fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Nihil est ab omni

Post equitem sedet atra Cura.

Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, Labuntur anni

Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit.

Integer vitae scelerisque purus.

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero Pulsanda tellus.

Nil desperandum.

Dum loquimur, fugerit invida

Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum.

O imitatores, servum pecus.

Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.

Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.

Concordia discors.

Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret.

Nil admirari prope res est una, Numici,

Ira furor brevis est.

Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude.

Si possis recte, si non, quocumque modo rem.

Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati.

Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus.

Ut pictura poesis.

Semper ad eventum festinat et in medias res Non secus ac notas auditorem rapit.

Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti Se puero, castigator censorque minorum.