Mortui Quotes

#1. Mortui vivis docent - the dead teach the living.

Lars Kepler

#2. In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

Yogi Berra

#4. While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.

Masaru Emoto

#5. I think pregnancy is a huge responsibility.

Chelsea Handler

#6. When you're awake, all the men go and fall for you -
Sleep, pretty lady, and give me a chance
(From the poem "Lullaby")

Dorothy Parker

#7. If you forget your roots, you've lost sight of everything

Walter Payton

#8. Humbert the Terrible deliberated with Humbert the Small whether Humbert Humbert should kill her or her lover, or both, or neither.

Vladimir Nabokov

#9. A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

Cyrano De Bergerac

#10. Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

Sam Ewing

#11. Love catches fire...

Julie Maroh

#12. I guess I didn't have a lot of friends, so that's what made videogames so important. They played back. I could do them myself. Solitaire can't surprise you; there's no AI. But videogames play back with you.

Tim Schafer