Hominum Quotes

#1. How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

Lucretius

#2. Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

Seneca The Younger

#3. The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature.
[Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

Ovid

#4. Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes
de essentia hominum.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#5. Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

Lucretius

#6. just another empty beer can in the trashpile of life

Dennis Morgan

#7. Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home.

Ashley Purdy

#9. People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

Mark Zupan

#10. Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.

Casey Abrams

#11. The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

Sri Chinmoy

#12. Paper clip. Ping. Disaster. Colonel Bowie is down. Colonel Bowie is down! The Mexican Army is now leaderless. Capone gloats.

Dean Koontz

#13. I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

Kathy Bates

#14. Oh no," she says. Soft because I am the older one, but very strong. (I've noticed it. All of a sudden they look at you, and then it comes to them, young people, they are bound to outlast you, so they temper up their icy steel and stare into about an inch away from you a lot. Have you noticed it?) At

Grace Paley

#15. Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

Helen Humphreys

#16. I was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel.

Tori Spelling