Fata Quotes

#1. Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

Ovid

#2. From no place can you exclude the fates.
[Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]

Martial

#3. Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

Ernst Junger

#4. Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)

Terentianus Maurus

#5. Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli":
"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."

Terentianus Maurus

#7. If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
[Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

Martial

#8. Don't pursue happiness!
Life is as short as a sigh.
The dust of people that were once famous
turn with the reddish clay on the wheel you are
looking at. The universe is a fata morgana;
life is a dream.

Omar Khayyam

#9. In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

Prince Philip

#10. I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

Tommy Cooper

#11. Well, I'd have more zing with George Clooney and Harrison Ford in a threesome, but neither of us are going to get that wish.

Nora Roberts

#12. Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.

Hillary Clinton

#13. And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#14. Sometimes I hear
screaming like a child
and wake up
to find it's me

Stephen Fitzsimons

#15. Thus it is awkward to call motion-sickness a migraine attack, but we may very conveniently term it a migranoid reaction, and note, in support of its affinities, that a large minority (almost 50 per cent, according to Selby and Lance) of adult migraine sufferers experienced severe motion-sickness in

Oliver Sacks

#16. When you have friends, don't expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don't expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you're an activist, don't put your hope in the results. When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on Allah.

Yasmin Mogahed

#17. Guinea Pig never has the same name two weeks in a row. This

Marti Dumas

#18. I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.

Groucho Marx