Profecto Quotes

#1. Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum - there are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain

Plautus

#2. There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do.
[Lat., Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.]

Plautus

#3. I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman.
[Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus,
Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse
Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]

Plautus

#4. But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
[Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]

Sallust

#5. No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

Ludacris

#6. Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

#7. As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

George Galloway

#8. You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Napoleon Hill

#9. I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

W.C. Fields

#10. Samaritrophia is only a disease, and a violent one, too, when it attacks those exceedingly rare individuals who reach biological maturity still loving and wanting to help their fellow men.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. It has started to snow. We all ran out when it began, and played at catching flakes as we used to when we were children. But it was cold, and our boots and gloves and cloaks were soon wet - you feel these things more when you are grown-up.

Natasha Farrant

#12. You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Connie Mack

#13. How do you know when God is at the center of your life? When God is at the center, you worship. When he's not, you worry.

Rick Warren

#14. You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.

Vint Cerf

#15. "Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at the White House ...

James R. Lewis