Top 12 Scripta Quotes
#1. Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him.
[Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti,
Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]
Ovid
#2. Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.
Christopher Hitchens
#3. 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
#6. Hope is a cancer. One of two things happens. Either you never learn the truth, in which case it gnaws down to the bone until there's nothing left, or worse, you do, and you go through that windshield at ninety because hope told you it was okay to make the drive without a seat belt.
Matthew FitzSimmons
#7. Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.
Nick Cave
#8. It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Holmes
#9. Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.
Erma Bombeck
#10. Opera?" Trelon asked tiredly, "What the hell is opera?" "I'll tell you what it is! It is the screeching of the death birds, that what it is!
Capturing Cara (Dragon Lords of Valdier, #2)
S. E. Smith
#11. Lucifer is God in the public school system
Vinnie Paz
#12. Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.
Shahla Khan
