Aptissima Quotes

#1. For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
[Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di,
Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]

Juvenal

#2. Humans want to conquer everyone they can, and buy everything they see. I think this is because humans have forgotten how to be happy. It's not their fault - it's not easy figuring out how to be happy in these days of anything-but-moderation.

A.S. King

#3. Big, funny men sometimes forget that their smaller mates have access to their unconscious bodies when they go to sleep. Sometimes you have to remind them of that.

Alanea Alder

#4. I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment.

Demetri Martin

#5. Your protagonist suffers from mental illness, but that fact is not central to the

Leslie J. Anderson

#6. Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Samuel Richardson

#7. supposed to live a

Philippa Gregory

#8. But for goodness sake, Frank - forget you're an engineer, and simply enjoy the view.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.

Joshua Wong

#10. We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

Bob Woodward