Quod Quotes

#1. Quod not cogit amor? (Is there anything love couldn't make us do?)

Karen Marie Moning

#2. The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me,
extinguishes me.

John Green

#3. Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
[Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris;
Ne videris quod videris.]

Plautus

#4. When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.
[Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#5. Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

Walter Map

#6. By God," quod he, "for pleynly, at a word,
Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!

Geoffrey Chaucer

#7. Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. (Roughly: It's easy for men to believe what they want to.)

Gaius Iulius Caesar

#8. 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

#9. Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

Augustine Of Hippo

#10. No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen.
[Lat., Quod medicorum est
Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

Horace

#12. Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
[Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]

Plautus

#13. Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
[Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

Ovid

#14. Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Julius Caesar

#15. Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
[Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

Tacitus

#16. There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]

Juvenal

#17. Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn.
[Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]

Samuel Johnson

#18. Damnant quod non intelligunt." They condemn what they do not understand.

Gregg Loomis

#19. If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.
[Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

Horace

#20. 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

#21. It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
[Lat., Delere licebit
Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Horace

#22. What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
[Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

Ovid

#23. Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")

Giorgio De Chirico

#24. Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]

Lucretius

#25. the clerk in the ministry to correct this, he pulled out his original typescript. "See for yourself, madam. Quod erat demonstrandum it is Missing," he said, as if he'd proved Pythagoras's theorem, the sun's central position in the solar system, the roundness of the

Abraham Verghese

#26. quod erat demonstrandum, which is Latin for which is the thing that was going to be proved, which means thus it is proved.

Mark Haddon

#27. 'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'

Geoffrey Chaucer

#28. DENNIS, in order to die, one must first be alive."
"Quod erat demonstrandum. Oh, yes, and also: I think, therefore I am.

Keith Caserta

#29. He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
[Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

Horace

#30. Quod me alit, me extinguit"

'What feeds me, extinguishes me

William Shakespeare

#31. Da quod iubes et iube quod vis
Give what thou commandest and command what thou wilt

Augustine Of Hippo

#32. Quod volimus credimus libenter
we always believe what we want to believe

Robert Harris

#33. What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.
[Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,
In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]

Catullus

#34. The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.
[Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

Horace