Afferre Quotes

#1. What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. There's something more surprising than becoming a bestseller, and that's receiving messages of hate by other fellow authors.

Daniel Marques

#3. The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.

Rosamond Lehmann

#5. We think we're invincible, but we're not. One way or another, we're all placed six feet under.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#6. Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

#7. While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

William Shakespeare

#8. I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.

Seneca The Younger

#9. harsh interrogation techniques.

Daniel L. Byman

#10. Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

Rich Lowry

#11. Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.

George Herbert

#12. The world was FUBAR now. And if you're not okay with that, you're just a corpse waiting to happen.

Rick Yancey

#13. In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.

Ozzy Osbourne

#14. I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

Vanessa Paradis

#15. There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

Malcolm Gladwell