Pharsalia Quotes

#1. After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws.

Plutarch

#2. Every time I learn the truth about something, I'm disappointed

Chuck Klosterman

#3. My name is Markowski. I carry a badge. Also a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets.
I was never a Boy Scout but "Be Prepared" is still a good motto to live by. Especially if you plan to keep living.

Justin Gustainis

#4. Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Theodor W. Adorno

#5. It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.

John Taylor Gatto

#6. Can you think of anyone less likely than me to listen to an angel, Snorri?

Mark Lawrence

#7. Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early.

Raymond Floyd

#8. The more we know, the less we can predict.

Yuval Noah Harari

#9. Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

Sean O Faolain

#10. A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.

Ed Speleers

#11. But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock-life, we have surely blundered into the very emptiest mockery in our effort to establish the one true system. I

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#12. I am sorry, my darling, but there will never be another to replace you. The words I whispered to you were folly, and should have realized it then. You- and you alone- have always been the only thing I wanted, and now that you are gone have no desire to find another.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. We are each shaped from our birth, not only by the blood and inheritance that lies behind us, but also by those we love and by whom we are loved in turn, by the knowledge given to our thirsty minds, to the learning of ourselves.

Andre Norton

#14. The soul should always stand ajar.

Emily Dickinson

#15. Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Elbert Hubbard