Ipse Quotes

#1. They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen.
[Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]

Ovid

#2. The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
[Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

Quintus Ennius

#3. It is a wise child that knows his own father.
[Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

Homer

#4. Being hardworking is the best thing you can show children.

David Beckham

#5. Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.

J.C. Ryle

#6. The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

Brigham Young

#7. I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

John Schneider

#8. Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them. It trained them to shoot skeet.

Joseph Heller

#9. No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

Max More

#10. Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.

Mark Driscoll

#11. What was the apostrophe doing there? Did the doctor own the Meescham? And what was it with exclamation marks? Did people not know what they were for? Surprise, anger, joy - that's what exclamation marks were for. They had nothing to do with who resided where.

Kate DiCamillo

#12. The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.

Gerard De Nerval

#13. So you make a sacrifice!' he threw special emphasis on the last word. 'Well, so do I. What could be better? We complete in generosity
what an example of family happiness!

Leo Tolstoy