Surgit Quotes

#1. Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]

Lucretius

#2. Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Ben Jonson

#3. I don't wanna be labeled as straight or labeled as gay. I just want people to look at me and see me as white.

Sarah Silverman

#4. If what you believe is not true, do you want to know it?

Don C Harris

#5. It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked Islam for their own purposes. It's important not to fall into that trap and to try to respond with a metaphysical retaliation of some sort.

Edward Said

#6. But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

John Maynard Keynes

#7. I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale
pg. 65// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#8. The desert is full of things you can't hold on to - light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships you once had.

Al Riske