Quotes About Dicta

#1. The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

Emma Goldman

#2. The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors in the battle for popularity at a given moment, but my own understanding of the American tradition in which I was brought up.

Jane Jacobs

#3. Smooth words in place of gifts.
[Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]

Plautus

#4. There's nothing quite like the glorious serendipity of finding a book you didn't know you wanted to read.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong

Murphy's Law

#6. As far back as I can remember, Beatrice and Glory been usin' Jesus as an excuse to be bitches.

Edward Kelsey Moore

#7. I don't have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before.

Lleyton Hewitt

#8. Rhiannon's Law #22. You can't lie to yourself, so don't bother trying. Doing so only multiplies your douchebag level to the umpteenth power and confirms what others have been saying for years - that you are an idiot.

J.A. Saare

#9. Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.

Kelley Armstrong

#10. Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. Solomon's Laws
1. When the law doesn't work ... work the law.

Paul Levine

#12. Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

Gloria Steinem

#13. Maybe fear is God's way of saying, Pay attention, this could be fun.

Craig Ferguson

#14. I have a couple of best friends, and I don't think I would live with them. It definitely ... certain people can't live together, and I think that it could potentially put a lot of strain on the relationship or friendship.

Alexandra Chando

#15. The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Murphy's Law

#16. They say the truth will set you free, but what nobody tells you is that sometimes the truth will also make you miserable.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#17. Healey's First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

#18. Anyone who is friends with Bill Clinton shouldn't be telling their wife about it.

Chelsea Handler

#19. If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

Mickey Gilley

#20. Rhiannon's Law #16: If it looks like a rabbit, and it hops like a rabbit, run the other way and fast. That shit is liable to tear you arm off.

J.A. Saare

#21. No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

Jamaica Kincaid

#22. Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

Christopher Moore