Oderint Quotes

#1. Executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: "Oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate us as long as they fear us).

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Oh, Lucia the captain said softly, you are so little and so lovely. how I would have liked to have taken you to Norway and shown you the fiords in the midnight sun, and to China- what you've missed, Lucia, by being born too late to travel the Seven Seas with me! And what I've missed, too.

R.A. Dick

#3. Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test.

John Helm

#4. Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?

Josh Charles

#5. Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#6. People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

Tom Scholz

#7. What comes, is called.

Ki Longfellow

#8. Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

Aneurin Bevan