Auscultant Quotes

#1. Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

Plautus

#2. The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Harlan Coben

#3. I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee
especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.

Jim Al-Khalili

#4. It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.

Erma Bombeck

#5. No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use.

Knut Hamsun

#6. Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#7. I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

Harry Houdini

#8. We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.

Dan Hawkins