Emperor Caligula Quotes

#1. Executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: "Oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate us as long as they fear us).

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family ... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

Kristen Bell

#3. So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
- IV:22

Suetonius

#4. Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon.

Hassan Nasrallah

#5. As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae.

Suetonius

#6. Feminism's ultimate success is that we don't need it anymore.

S. E. Cupp

#7. went straight to the water cooler. "Goddamn, Sarge, you look, like holy

David A. Maurer

#8. Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#9. A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.

Eddie Van Halen

#10. People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.

Philip Treacy

#11. Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not just for entertaining us, although that would be enough.

Victoria Connelly

#12. Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

John Harington

#13. If you don't fight for it then you don't deserve to have it

Abie Sigauke

#14. To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

#15. What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.

Syama Prasad Mukherjee

#16. What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

Jostein Gaarder