Annum Quotes

#1. Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.
(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is the birthrate per anum?' is zero (one hopes).

Mary Roach

#3. Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.

Warren Buffett

#4. Well, the questioner came from Singapore which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy and therefore he referred to 15% per annum as modest. It's not modest-it's arrogant. Only someone from Singapore would call it modest.

Charlie Munger

#5. A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

David F. Swensen

#6. If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
[Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

Horace

#7. At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

Joseph Lancaster

#8. The Gong lived in the Pit. It made a loud, brassy "nnnnnnngggggggggg" that set everyone's teeth on edge. Any deal over 50K per annum, the salesman got to take a whack at it, so that the whole company would know he'd landed a big fish.

Lori Berhon

#9. Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year.
[Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

Horace

#10. It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody

Nick Minchin

#11. The oceans that surround the world produce 185 billion tons of CO2 per annum. Man per annum only produces six billion tons, so what could possibly be the concern?

John Raese

#12. Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

James Chanos

#13. A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.

Elisha Cuthbert

#14. Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23

Beth Moore

#15. Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

Michala Petri

#16. That no journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.

Jojo Moyes

#17. How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.

Pope Francis

#18. Don't fear conflict, fear the silence.

Ross Parsley

#19. She didn't need my protection, only my partnership.

Kyra Davis

#20. The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

C.S. Lewis