Curtae Quotes

#1. Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

Horace

#2. He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#3. My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

Mithun Chakraborty

#4. God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, which correspond to the physical element in us, do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond.

James Martineau

#5. Jesus is God is the unified field theory of Christianity.

R. Alan Woods

#6. So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Bo Jackson

#7. The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Harry Segall

#8. In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.

Valerie Simpson

#9. People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

Edward Norton

#10. Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]

Juvenal

#11. Instead of using the expression "It is what it is," just shut up.

Bill Maher

#12. I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Booth Tarkington

#13. My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.

George Foreman

#14. Unlike high tax rates, you can't repeal totalitarianism if it turns out to be a mistake.

Anonymous

#15. A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#16. We're all good until we're not strong enough to be anymore.

Lindsay Cummings