Artaxerxes Quotes

#1. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

John Milton

#2. The authority of the prince," said Artaxerxes, "must be defended by a military force; that force can only be maintained by taxes; all taxes must, at last, fall upon agriculture; and agriculture can never flourish except under the protection of justice and moderation." ^55

Edward Gibbon

#3. The rich, being people too, doing all they could to cope with the night sweats and zombie terrors of making fourteen hundred times as much money as the people working for them, made

Kim Stanley Robinson

#4. I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

Justin Bieber

#5. Watch yourself, bitch. You're nothing but a thief and gob shite scumbag with a face like an arse and a mind to go with it,

D.H. Toole

#6. I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed.

Mick Doohan

#7. Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

Igor Stravinsky

#8. True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

Jim George

#9. Right, but he also thinks every episode of Friends is life-changing. Josh

Jay Asher

#10. You can't take anything in life WAY too seriously ... Even the serious stuff!

Tanya Masse

#11. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be ... including our perception. Of it

Anais Nin

#12. Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.

Thomas Ligotti

#13. I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

Cass McCombs

#14. Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away.

Julia Quinn

#15. I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life.

Sara Shepard