Gauls Quotes

#1. Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Danes, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks and Armenians.

Fulcher Of Chartres

#2. Young Alexander conquered India.
He alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army?
Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears?
Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who
Triumphed with him?

Bertolt Brecht

#3. The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

Edward Gibbon

#4. Begone, begone, you bloody whoreson Gauls!

John Williams

#5. When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

Lactantius

#6. Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives.

Edward Gibbon

#8. The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#9. Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

Pierre-Jean De Beranger

#10. Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

A.J. Quinnell

#11. I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

Martha Raye

#12. 1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States ...

Joan Didion

#13. Don't labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives.

Tony Robbins

#14. The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.

Siegfried Sassoon

#15. Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

Paul Theroux

#16. There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

Paul Watson

#17. Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

B.o.B

#18. I've found I can always manage to run for my life. I just need to know which direction to run in.

Jodi Baker

#19. It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

Ovadia Yosef

#20. I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

Les Claypool

#21. As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

Clare Bowen

#22. While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

Habib Bourguiba

#23. Barbara began to imagine the pretty girls working in Derry and Toms as beautiful tropical fish in a tank, swimming up and down, up and down, in serene disappointment, with nowhere to go and nothing to see that they hadn't seen a million times before.

Nick Hornby