Ciceronian Quotes

#1. How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

Francois Rabelais

#2. For me, my targets are more important than my happiness and that is the secret of my happiness.

Amit Kalantri

#3. triremes with a half deck for carrying full sail and more sailors

Christian Cameron

#4. Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?

Robert Winston

#5. the human soul is a lonely thing

Jack London

#6. If a woman chooses to support her husband and become First Lady, I believe she must do so with the understanding that the public expects the full-meal deal.

Venita Ellick

#7. Winners make commitments, losers make excuses.

John Schuerholz

#8. Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. [On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

Ethel Barrymore

#10. What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

Mark Twain

#11. Records and achievements are made to be broken.

Yogi Berra

#12. Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

Erma Bombeck

#13. Make every day special. Own it. Enjoy it. Bask in the glory of life. Appreciate the gift of your own life.

Donna Fargo

#14. Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

#15. I want a bibimbap wrap (honestly I just like saying "bibimbap"),

Karina Halle

#16. Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Stephen Hawking