Homines Quotes

#1. Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
[Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Juvenal

#2. Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

Plautus

#3. We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it.

James Boswell

#4. Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. (Roughly: It's easy for men to believe what they want to.)

Gaius Iulius Caesar

#5. Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
[Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]

Juvenal

#7. Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Julius Caesar

#8. One Macaca fuscata is cleverer than two Homines sapientes

David Mitchell

#9. For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive:

Kahlil Gibran

#10. The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#11. The Pakistanis are very resilient people.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#12. I loathe most crossover music. Yet I like to think when it comes to Code it's something different.

Mat McNerney

#13. Carrying out our purpose as believers is God's plan for our lives

Sunday Adelaja

#14. You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh ... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.

Jay McInerney

#15. All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

Jack Kerouac

#16. But bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails, aye?' He

Diana Gabaldon

#17. Fix me up with a mannequin, just remember I like blondes. I'll be the life of the party, even when I'm dead and gone.

Joe Diffie

#18. Bullets like cocks, came in a variety of different sizes and length but were all more or less the same shape.

Nicole Castle

#19. Jefferson, incidentally, was also a great adventurer with foods. Among his many other accomplishments, he was the first person in America to slice potatoes lengthwise and fry them. So as well as being the author of the Declaration of Independence, he was also the father of the American French fry.

Bill Bryson