Quis Quotes

#1. The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
[Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;
Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]

Plautus

#2. Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

Solon

#3. 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

#4. Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
[Lat., Vir bonus est quis?
Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

Horace

#5. Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

Juvenal

#6. 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

#7. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who supervises the supervisors themselves?

Juvenal

#8. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
Which roughly translates as
Who will Guard the Guardians, or
Who watches the watchers.

Juvenal

#9. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

Juvenal

#10. Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas's comrade as they fought their way out of burning Troy disguised in Greek armor; which may be loosely translated: It won't matter to the enemy whether you beat him by guile or by valor.

Thaddeus Holt

#11. Discernment is the ability to judge a situation accurately - to see the full reality of a situation, relationship, experience, or circumstance. It is the capacity to understand accurately and clearly what is, to see the truth of things as they are from God's viewpoint.

Charles F. Stanley

#12. It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Ferdinand Foch

#13. I'm always going to have a story to tell.

Syleena Johnson

#14. I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

Sebastian Coe

#15. What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today." -- From 'Groundhog Day

J.M. Evenson

#16. I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes.

June Hunt

#17. But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.

Yiyun Li

#18. Is this place called Virgins? Well, I shouldn't be here! -Nina

Lisi Harrison