Magis Quotes

#1. The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

Juvenal

#2. Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He who lies on the ground can fall no farther. In me, Fortune has exhausted her power of hurting; nothing remains that can harm me anymore.")

Thomas Kyd

#3. It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
[Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

Tacitus

#4. The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless.
[Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique
In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

Ovid

#5. But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
[Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]

Sallust

#6. Markham even had our banners ready. The polite NON AD CAPITAGIUM (No to the poll tax), the hopeful MAGIS STIPENDIUM HISTORICI (More money for historians) and the always accurate POLICITI NOSTRAE OMNEC WANKERS SUNT (Most politicians are not very good).

Jodi Taylor

#7. The 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

Mary Ritter Beard

#8. I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.

Clive Barker

#9. In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls.

Tyra Banks

#10. The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.

Heidi Roizen

#11. What if it was enough to just stand here in the arms of someone who ared about her, to let his simple affection steady her for a little while? it felt so good just to be held.

Lauren Kate

#12. People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.

Sanaa Lathan

#13. The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#14. I like to dress, I love to have make-up on, I like to do my hair.

Ashthon Jones

#15. Life will always get in the way of living.

Jennifer Donohoe

#16. I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

Aaron Copland

#17. I like to dance. I'm not going to say that I'm a good dancer.

Jessie Usher

#18. A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

Johann Gottfried Herder