Richmond Lattimore Quotes

#1. I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness

Frank O'Hara

#2. He's going to think I tried too had."
"He's going to be too busy looking at you to think of anything.

Myra McEntire

#3. The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

Cullen Hightower

#4. Rather than always impose your will,
allow men to learn from their mistakes.
Great failures make great teachers;
success enables one to forget some things
a failure cannot afford to.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. I am pro-life. I hate the concept of abortion.

Donald Trump

#6. I have four pelvises on my desk. One is from a human woman who died not long ago.

Meredith Small

#7. Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.

J. Frank Dobie

#8. As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

George Eliot

#9. Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

John Ruskin

#10. Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways,
who was driven far journeys

Homer

#11. All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.

Alphonse Karr

#12. Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

Jonathan Swift

#13. I am self-propelled; fueled from within. I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm not attached to them. I learned a long time ago that if I give them the power to feed me, I also give them the power to starve me.

Steve Maraboli

#14. A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

H.L. Mencken

#15. In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.

Robert E. Howard