Lyctus Carbonarius Quotes

#1. Let us speak behind our hands, lest our lips be read as the book of our designs, and let us find some place where only gods and rats may hear our words aloud.

Scott Lynch

#2. Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me."

Ibn Ata Allah

#3. If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

Karl Kraus

#4. I don't need government to be successful.

Michele Bachmann

#5. Just be prepared," she said. "When you do come back to live with me, you are SO GROUNDED for calling me the chicken that crossed the road.

Jennifer Echols

#6. It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?

William Lucking

#7. I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.'
Then look your fill, and leap away.

Charles Reade

#8. When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

Robert Jordan

#9. If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them
structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#10. Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Sophocles

#11. A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

John Gay

#12. I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

Bob Hope

#15. The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

Katharine Hepburn