Ridendo Quotes

#1. Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.

Antonio De Oliveira Salazar

#3. He did not make me. He did not break me.

Ryan Graudin

#4. Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

Sebastian Faulks

#5. The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to endure.

F. Sionil Jose

#6. Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

Matthew Woodring Stover

#7. Donald Cameron has his own character in the world now!? Skeletor exclaimed, in somewhat the same tone of voice as a tribune might have said, Hannibal has crossed the Alps with elephants!?

Neal Stephenson

#8. The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

Noam Chomsky

#9. My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

Kool Moe Dee

#10. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

Gillian Flynn

#11. As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

William Shakespeare

#12. I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.

Rashida Jones