Profanum Vulgus Quotes

#1. I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
[Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Favete linguis.]

Horace

#2. Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.

Emily Oster

#3. You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

Garrison Keillor

#4. She stuffed in more waffles, and thought if every day started off with sex and waffles, people would maybe be less inclined to kill each other.

J.D. Robb

#5. I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

Rachel Nichols

#6. I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.

Dalai Lama

#7. The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

Ian K. Smith

#8. Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy.

Epictetus

#9. Always be grateful for your blessings, especially your heritage. When we are blessed with goodly parents, we should be grateful. This is the debt each of us owes for our heritage.

Quentin L. Cook

#10. I looked over. Somehow, I wasn't surprised to find the homeless guy from the rail yard sitting in the shotgun seat. His jeans were so worn out they were almost white. His coat was ripped, with stuffing coming out. He looked kind of like a teddy bear that had been run over by a truck.

Rick Riordan

#11. Show me someone who practices the petty theft of floggers, and I'll show you a hard on.

Thespectaclesofthor

#12. ...and I thought it was nice that they knew how to talk and how to laugh and how to be in the world.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#13. Many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. Its fate. What's meant to be will always find a way.

Clara Garcia

#14. We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.

Bob Goff

#15. There was the stink of burning martyr in the air.

Lauren Groff

#16. The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.

Tacitus