Quotes About Sunt

#1. Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
[Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]

Tacitus

#2. There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

Anne Carson

#3. sunt lacrimae rerum, "There are tears in things.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#4. The gods have their own laws.
[Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

Ovid

#5. There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#6. The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
[Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#7. All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
[Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones;
Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]

Martial

#10. Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious.
[Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

Ovid

#11. The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
[Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

Plautus

#12. Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

Seneca The Younger

#13. Hic sunt leones. Here be lions.

Pierce Brown

#14. Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

Mark Haddon

#15. Fallaces sunt rerum speciaes. The appearances of things are deceptive.

Wendy Wallace

#16. Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
[Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. Markham even had our banners ready. The polite NON AD CAPITAGIUM (No to the poll tax), the hopeful MAGIS STIPENDIUM HISTORICI (More money for historians) and the always accurate POLICITI NOSTRAE OMNEC WANKERS SUNT (Most politicians are not very good).

Jodi Taylor

#18. There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven.
[Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

Ovid

#19. An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave

Rachel Cohn

#21. When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

Nancy Astor

#22. Art is what separates us from the animals.

Iimani David

#23. The proprietor of the grocery store on the corner was bidding a silent farewell to a tomato which even he, though a dauntless optimist, had been compelled to recognize as having outlived its utility.

P.G. Wodehouse

#24. I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

Andrew Dominik

#25. New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.

Mallory Factor

#26. This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

Seth Godin