Top 36 Res Quotes
#1. We might even say that the world is always in medias res - a Latin phrase which means "in the midst of things" or "in the middle of a narrative" - and that it is impossible to solve any mystery, or find the root of any trouble,
Lemony Snicket
#2. Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.
[Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#3. Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought.
[Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#4. But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
[Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]
Sallust
#5. Bekase why: would a wise man ant to live in de mid's er such a blimblammin' all de time? No
'deed he wouldn't. A wise man 'ud take en buil' a biler-factry; en den he could shet down de biler-factory when he want to res'.
Mark Twain
#6. Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
Hunter S. Thompson
#7. People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake ... You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
Errol Morris
#8. There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
Catullus
#9. Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.
Umberto Eco
#11. Ipsum Nomen Res Ipsa: The Name Itself is the Thing Itself. I.N.R.I.: Isis, Apophis, Osiris: IAO.
Robert Anton Wilson
#12. Ah! si l'on o tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#13. Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
Plautus
#14. Julia. At the most basic level a Roman husband had only to utter the phrase 'take your things for yourself' (tuas res tibi habeto) to separate from his wife.
Adrian Goldsworthy
#15. Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life, you have to stand on your own two feet.
Sue Monk Kidd
#16. They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.]
Juvenal
#17. If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
(Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]
Ovid
#19. Well baby you know if she's you'res then you have to stand up and be there for her.
Rikenya Hunter
#20. It seems delightfully incongruous,' he wrote from Armentie'res, 'that there should be good shops and fine buildings and comfortable beds less than half an hour's walk from the trenches
Vera Brittain
#21. Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.)
Burton G. Malkiel
#22. Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#23. Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things.
Nick Harkaway
#24. Mindful awareness / Mindful (Res):Awareness of present-moment experience, with intention and purpose, without grasping on to judgments. Traits of being mindful are having an open stance toward oneself and others, emotional equanimity, and the ability to describe the inner world of the mind.
Daniel J. Siegel
#25. It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible.
Stefan Hell
#26. We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
Mona Simpson
#27. SPIKE: I whistled at you.
STAR: I'm not a dog. Why would I respond to a whistle?
[He chuckled. He had been around too many club wh*res.]
Sam Crescent
#28. And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
Horace
#29. You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
[Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.]
Plautus
#30. The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William Osler
#31. Heat prickled my cheeks. My palms went clammy. Love is a lot like food poisoning.
Suzanne Supplee
#32. I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.
Mohsin Hamid
#33. If your friends don't want your boyfriend, what's the point?
Andrew Holleran
#34. If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen ... A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting
only the deeply personal and familiar.
John Steinbeck
#35. As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
Karen Hughes
#36. Is it possible
for a heart to be exhausted?
Can it still be worn
when locked tight
in its cage?
My heart's beat
is a drum too loose,
a dull thud
where it once
was triumphant.
Tyler Knott Gregson
