Praebet Quotes

#1. This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
[Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

Ovid

#2. Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Mike Quigley

#3. A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

Douglas Pagels

#4. Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?

Edith Sitwell

#5. Celebrate Life. To truly live, Celebrate each day of Life. Let each day be a Festival of Joy.-RVM

R.v.m.

#6. Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.

Allan Bloom

#7. Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

Rod Stewart

#8. I am going to keep on singing. I have no intention of retiring. Actually, I always wonder whether people know my songs in the different countries I visit. I feel nervous over whether they will sing along with me or not.

Bonnie Tyler

#9. Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#10. He stared at me in complete puzzlement, And while I'm committing incest for you is there anything else you'd like? Maybe a side-order of bestiality?

Candice Raquel Lee

#11. In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

Brander Matthews

#12. It turned out keeping reality bound by mathematical laws was a useful hack preventing the Devil from existing.

Scott Alexander