Pauperis Quotes

#1. FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.

David Vann

#3. I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.

Emma Donoghue

#4. Listen like a student.
Learn like a scholar.
Live like a sage.
Love like a saint.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

John Fiske

#6. A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

Louis L'Amour

#7. Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

John Dryden

#8. I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

Don Henley

#9. What do they call that hat Jewish guys always wear? A Yankees cap.

Anthony Jeselnik