Quotes About Justinian

#1. On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

Robert Bellarmine

#2. Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race ... Mohammed ...

John William Draper

#3. In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast.

Isaac Newton

#4. They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.

Herman Melville

#5. Browning: 'Justinian's Pandects only make precise / What simply sparkled in men's eyes before'.

Michael Oakeshott

#6. A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#7. The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

Charles Clover

#8. Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian I

#9. What if you died, and you found out that when you died, we all went to the same place. No Heaven, no Hell, doesn't matter what you did in life - you all go to the same place, regardless. I know a lot of nice people who will be really pissed off. You'll see Gandhi arguing with the doorman.

Dana Gould

#10. Marriage or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving shared life together.

Justinian I

#11. We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

Amos Lee

#12. ...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.

Procopius Of Caesarea

#13. Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

Justinian I

#14. Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Justinian I

#15. Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It's a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.

J.A. Redmerski

#16. The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Noam Chomsky

#17. There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity,

Justinian I

#18. Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#19. Only those who row the boat make waves

Christina Dodd

#20. The safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian I

#21. inspired him to bear witness to a world which was bleeding with injustice and intolerance and petty corruption.

David Lagercrantz

#22. Let go of the place that holds, let go of the place that controls, let go of the place that fears. Just let the ground support me.

Stephanie Kaza

#23. God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Federico Fellini

#24. There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. BEAR WAS DEAD. That sweet and kindly man, the wisest I had ever known, the one I considered friend, teacher, and even father, was gone. Would

Avi

#26. If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]

Justinian I

#27. Damned no matter what you do. Why do people think knowing secrets is fun?

Beth Gutcheon

#28. It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

Swami Vivekananda

#29. If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.

Justinian I

#30. Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

Earl Weaver

#31. I've been playing in the field of life on my own for a while now and it's fair to say I have gained myself along the way, I gotta admit though, after all this time I am damn well excited to fall insanely inLove with someone who knows how to take my breath away.

Nikki Rowe

#32. Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

Justinian I