Tantum Quotes

#1. On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

Henry Hampton

#2. Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.
[Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area,
Tantum habet et fidei.]

Juvenal

#3. Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)

Titus Lucretius Carus

#4. If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Tina Fey

#5. Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.)

Burton G. Malkiel

#6. Bacon had done it, and Campanella had said, with Baconian pithiness, Tantum possumus quantum scimus - "Our power is proportioned to our knowledge." Perhaps

Will Durant

#7. Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.

Joe Flaherty

#8. Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

Frank Chodorov

#9. Somehow it's hard to quit with an odd number of fish, so I wanted one more for four,

Norman Maclean

#10. The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.

Timothy Noah

#11. If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

Jil Sander

#12. Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night ... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.

Jessa Gamble

#13. Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

Jean De La Bruyere

#15. I was fourteen when I fell in love with a goddess. Goddesses have that effect, even on teenagers.

Debbie Howells

#16. For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

Napoleon Bonaparte

#17. Yeah, right. Life is a soul-sucking test that you either survive or you fail. Personally, I think failure blows, so I intend to survive and laugh my ass off at all the losers. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. 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

#19. You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Oriana Fallaci

#20. If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

Elliot W. Eisner