Postumus Quotes

#1. Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

Horace

#2. It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

Simone De Beauvoir

#4. Can't stop a Nazi with a lawbook.

Herman Wouk

#5. The world was more fun if you could enjoy it with complete abandonment, untouched by the misery of others.

Darren Shan

#6. And if I don't answer... Then what?... Oh, no. Someone protect me from the bad man with a knife. - Admiral Kahina

Susan Dennard

#7. Why you do what you do matters the most to God.

Rick Warren

#8. I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.

Martial

#9. Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

Eric Chaisson

#10. Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.

Mark Donaldson

#11. You know what they say. When God slams a door on your fingers, he opens a window so you can scream for help.

Jennifer Sommersby

#12. It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling - or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.

Clement Greenberg

#13. The notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

Saunders Mac Lane

#14. The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

John Irving

#15. A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

P.G. Wodehouse