Quotes to inspire and reflect

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.

Concordia discors.

Nil admirari prope res est una, Numici,

Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret.

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.

Ut pictura poesis.

Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus.

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

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

Proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba.

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est.

Brevis esse laboro,

Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis Purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter Adsuitur pannus.

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

Birds build—but not I build; no, but strain,

My heart in hiding

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend

It ís the blight man was born for,

Áh! ás the heart grows older

Márgarét, áre you gríeving

All things counter, original, spare, strange;

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall

I have desired to go

What would the world be, once bereft

Elected Silence, sing to me

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

Towery city and branchy between towers;

Well, I’m still here.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

Oh, for an hour of Herod!

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won’t want.

Athene sent them a following breeze, a strong west wind that whistled over the wine-dark sea.

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered far and wide after he had sacked Troy’s sacred city, and saw the towns of many men and knew their mind.

Rosy-fingered dawn.

Smiling through her tears.

It lies in the lap of the gods.

Winged words.

Very like leaves

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. sometimes quoted as, ‘shouting fire in a crowded theatre’

Achilles’ cursed anger sing, O goddess, that son of Peleus, which started a myriad sufferings for the Achaeans.

We pause to … recall what our country has done for each of us and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

The papacy is not other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.