Potest Quotes

#1. Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
[Lat., Accedit etiam mors, quae quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendit: tum superstitio, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Paracelsus

#3. Can the fish love the fisherman?
[Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]

Martial

#4. If you spend a thing you can not have it.
[Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

Plautus

#5. Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
[Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying.
[Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]

Thomas A Kempis

#7. No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.

Plautus

#8. Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.)

Burton G. Malkiel

#9. A terrified rat will swear to anything.

Alistair MacLean

#10. I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism.

Fred White

#11. To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

Cherie Lunghi

#12. There can be no space nor any part of space without gravitational potentials; for these confer upon space its metrical qualities, without which it cannot be imagined at all. The existence of the gravitational field is inseparably bound up with the existence of space.

Albert Einstein

#13. CHAPTER XI TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTICExs

Charles Dickens

#14. I thought ( ... ) the proverbial glass ceiling had been cracked ( ... ) and I believed that it was just a matter of time until my generation took our fair share of the leadership roles.

Sheryl Sandberg

#15. To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.

Rumi

#16. A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving; 'tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

Edmond Rostand

#17. Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Winston Churchill