Tergo Quotes

#1. That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view.
[Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#2. Nothing is too late. It is only too late when you've completely given up.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#3. The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.

Gareth J. Nelson

#4. They were photographs you had to explain, which meant they were a failure.

Anna Quindlen

#5. Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

Franklin Foer

#6. I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

Marc Benioff

#7. Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life!

Derek Jacobi

#8. Let your imagination fly.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.

James Whitcomb Riley