Nequicquam Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.

David Letterman

#3. I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

Barry McGuire

#4. My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

Michele Bachmann

#5. I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Elie Tahari

#6. There is nobody more pro-Israel than I am.

Donald Trump

#7. because it's not my dad's fault he wasn't the dad I wanted growing up. Just like it's not his fault he got cancer. Blaming other people for the situation you find yourself in is just a waste of time. And besides, what's he going to learn if I tell him a few home truths?

Matt Dunn

#8. The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

#9. There are so many Al Anon fans and friends who have shown me wonderful love, prayers, thoughts! I thank everyone for this. It feels great to have wonderful people behind you, pushing and praying for you. Mostly, I don't want to let myself down, but they encourage me not to let them down.

Steven Adler

#10. I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

Trisha Yearwood

#11. Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

Neil Kinnock

#12. If they don't utter the words, it cannot happen. But words, once spoken, seal a man or maid for life or death. [Gisa]

Karen Maitland

#13. You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

Gary W. Keller

#14. Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

Charlie Korsmo

#15. The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

Laurie R. King