Apologue Quotes

#1. It is an old saying, "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword"; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.

Robert Burton

#2. Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where it was, is night; and history is an impertinence and an injury, if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Who will you measure Me with, so that we should be like each other?

Anonymous

#4. There was something terribly sad, yet terribly uplifting, about watching this prophet of the ancient art of distance running turning his back on everything except his dream, and heading back down to "the best place in the world to run." Alone.

Christopher McDougall

#5. Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

Jon Secada

#6. I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.

Geezer Butler

#7. Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

Amy Poehler

#8. The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.

Jennifer Lopez

#9. Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes.

Ramit Sethi

#10. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#11. I try to hold on to the things I believe to be good and true. Good things happen to good people. Karma is real. There is a larger, better plan for us all if we stay positive, keep pushing and get out of our own way.

Rob Lowe

#12. Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

Albert Camus

#13. We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.

Herb Kohl

#14. Good does not exist without the evil and right does not hold weight without knowing the wrong.

Stephanie Hudson

#15. Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

Peter Shaffer

#16. Every moment is precious, even the ones behind me that I often reflect upon with a reserved smile. However ... I seldom look back, only forward in anticipation of the next greater now.

Carl Henegan

#17. When I'm on stage, it's such a spiritual moment that I hope, even when we hit 'Fallon,' you can feel that through the TV. I have this whole horn section that's part of New Power Generation; I have an amazing crew of musicians behind me. It's their energy, too.

Liv Warfield