Amicis Quotes

#1. The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
[Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]

Sallust

#2. Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures,
That is the only wealth for ever yours.
[Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis;
Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]

Martial

#3. Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.
[Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

Juvenal

#4. Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.

Edmondo De Amicis

#5. Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.

Edmondo De Amicis

#6. God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#7. Isn't it generally known that you have to overlook flaws in people you date, to some extent? I mean, you expect them to overlook your flaws. It's only fair that you overlook some of theirs.

Adam Selzer

#8. In the seventeenth century, in less than forty years, twenty-six lakes were emptied.

Edmondo De Amicis

#9. One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again ...

Edmondo De Amicis

#10. Had our hearts been pure, we would never tire with the Dhikr of Allaah.

Uthman Ibn Affan

#11. I like a man with some extra padding.

Valerie Azlynn

#12. The school is a mother

Edmondo De Amicis

#13. A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

Edmondo De Amicis

#14. All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
For filth, I'm glad to say, is in
The mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man ...

Tom Lehrer

#15. It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

Edmondo De Amicis

#16. They were lucky. They'd been given history.

Kate Atkinson

#17. What is working stain, does not soil.

Edmondo De Amicis

#18. People change and mature.

Anna Todd

#19. Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

Marina And The Diamonds

#20. Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.

Steve Martin

#21. Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

Philip Athans

#22. In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#23. Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.

Edmondo De Amicis

#24. She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.

Scott Westerfeld