Top 33 Quam Quotes

#1. All I can say in my own defense is quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time (and yes, I have the tee-shirt).

Stephen King

Quam Quotes #100244
#2. Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
[Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Juvenal

Quam Quotes #103239
#3. Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

Quam Quotes #154807
#4. A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
[Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

Plautus

Quam Quotes #362545
#5. It is better to illuminate than merely to shine.
Maius est illuminare quam lucere solum.

Thomas Aquinas

Quam Quotes #430687
#6. Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

Horace

Quam Quotes #542160
#7. What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]

Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

Quam Quotes #583541
#8. Esse quam videri - "To be, rather than to seem (to be)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quam Quotes #584466
#9. The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

Juvenal

Quam Quotes #605865
#10. Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum - there are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain

Plautus

Quam Quotes #609570
#11. Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.
The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Seneca The Younger

Quam Quotes #616911
#12. The function of staying alive is automatic, living your life is not, living takes knowing what you are doing and where you are going.

Mark Quam

Quam Quotes #709764
#13. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

Horace

Quam Quotes #713380
#14. [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

Tacitus

Quam Quotes #733611
#15. You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
[Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.]

Plautus

Quam Quotes #978426
#16. It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
[Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

Tacitus

Quam Quotes #997801
#17. For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
[Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di,
Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]

Juvenal

Quam Quotes #1008255
#18. Potius sero quam nunquam.
Better late than never.

Livy

Quam Quotes #1087357
#19. The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
[Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]

Sallust

Quam Quotes #1174659
#20. Quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time

Stephen King

Quam Quotes #1261273
#21. Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

Erin Morgenstern

Quam Quotes #1263966
#22. Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quam Quotes #1312049
#23. What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quam Quotes #1352607
#24. Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
[Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

Ovid

Quam Quotes #1379218
#25. And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
[Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

Plautus

Quam Quotes #1433135
#26. None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart.
[Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

Tacitus

Quam Quotes #1538334
#27. He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
[Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quam Quotes #1540633
#28. The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.]

Juvenal

Quam Quotes #1592197
#29. One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.
[Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem.
Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]

Plautus

Quam Quotes #1645977
#30. After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere

Julius Caesar

Quam Quotes #1670826
#31. 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

Quam Quotes #1753891
#32. Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta suppellex.

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

Quam Quotes #1799726
#33. The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quam Quotes #1810177

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