Top 14 Quotes About Lesbia
#1. When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.
Raymond Geuss
#2. My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.
Thomas Campion
#3. Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness
presently
Every bed is narrow.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#4. Life is always so serious. We all need to stop for a minute, make faces at ourselves, and laugh. I
Alex Grayson
#5. Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote.
Seamus Heaney
#6. We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
Oscar Wilde
#7. There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.
Robert Cormier
#8. World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.
Gifford Pinchot
#9. The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
Albert Pike
#10. In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
George Crumb
#11. Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.
David Walton
#12. All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.
Karl Jaspers
#13. My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
Judy Woodruff
#14. Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.
Lucy Liu
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