Top 27 Marcus Valerius Quotes
#1. I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger
Jill Shalvis
#2. I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
Eminem
#3. A priest should take to heart the shameful scene of shepards filthy while the sheep are clean.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#5. Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends.
- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi
Marcus Valerius Martialis
#6. Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
Marcus Valerius Martial
#8. Flaccus, the sort of girl I hate
Is the scrawny one, with arms so thin
My rings would fit them, hips that grate,
Spine like a saw, knees like a pin
And a coccyx like a javelin.
But all the same I don't go in
For sheer bulk. I appreciate
Good meat, not blubber, on my plate.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
#11. I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#13. Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
Adriana Trigiani
#14. You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
#17. Because he hates to praise by name
He praises everybody. Vice
And virtue must look much the same
To one who calls the whole world "nice".
Marcus Valerius Martialis
#20. True happiness comes from within. When we stop looking for social proof and trust in ourselves, a certain magic happens. You are the most important person in your life, and, we are one.
Tony Williams
#23. Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well.
Christopher Hitchens
#26. Many lonely people, Strike knew, found it pleasant to be the focus of somebody's undivided attention and sought to prolong the novel experience.
Robert Galbraith
#27. You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
Marcus Valerius Martial