Proficit Quotes

#1. Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

Zhuangzi

#3. Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.

Timothy Noah

#4. It's a fun world to exist in, and I relish doing those movies as much as I do the smaller ones. They're always immense fun. I don't know if I am - unless we do a Benji film, I don't think I am an action hero really.

Simon Pegg

#5. When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

Baz Luhrmann

#6. When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#7. Just do it. Now.

M. Yeats

#8. Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

Joseph Addison

#9. The human mind resents control. The ordinary human hypnotist cannot hypnotize a person against his will for that reason. I can, because I'm not a hypnotist, and, believe me, Pritcher, the resentment that you cannot show and do not even know you possess is something I wouldn't want to face." Pritcher

Isaac Asimov

#10. I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

Janine Di Giovanni

#11. The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

Aiden Wilson Tozer