Fabius Quintilianus Quotes

#1. I listen to everything: hip hop, R&B, alternative, pop. I love JCole, so I'm always listening to him. Kendrick and Drake.

Dexter Darden

#2. Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

Kent Beck

#3. Reading is the least laborious of all the tasks that fall to the student's lot.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#4. In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred repository, when they may be drawn forth for sudden emergencies, or as circumstances require.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#5. Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#6. Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.

Walter Russell

#7. A liar should have a good memory.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#8. There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#9. It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

David Halberstam

#10. Do you ever not go for the lowest blow? Like, do you ever think, 'Maybe I shouldn't say the most cruel thing just now?'"
"I'm trying to be efficient.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#12. Medieval justice was scrupulous about holding proper trials and careful not to sentence without proof of guilt, but it achieved proof by confession rather than evidence, and confession was routinely obtained by torture.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#13. For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

George Herbert

#14. We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#15. You're walking around here with a smile on your face, Asher. It's freaking everybody out.

Victoria Dahl

#16. I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero

David Bowie

#17. To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

John Ortberg Jr.

#18. Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish

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#19. Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Margaret Mead

#20. Yes, it had been a perfect match, except for the fact that he had been perfectly in love with someone else.

Sarah MacLean

#21. For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.

Kate Morton

#22. You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic.

Debasish Mridha

#23. My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

Starhawk