Tibullus Quotes

#1. Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

Walter Savage Landor

#2. How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!

Tibullus

#3. I'm living what I always wanted to do.

Bruce Boxleitner

#4. Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

Tibullus

#5. One day it was that I wanted to go make a movie with my kid and then another day it was that I wanted to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and another day it was that I wanted to sit in the studio and figure something out. All those things manifested themselves into what the TV show was.

Casey Neistat

#6. Alexandra, I can handle my own fucking cock."

Stitch that on a pillow.

Kate Meader

#7. Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made.

Tibullus

#8. We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.

Andy Hargreaves

#9. Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. While I was doing shitty little bar shows in the Central Valley in 2004, I was being out and helping people realize that gay people aren't monsters, that they are just people. So I look at this world with a great deal of pride, and I'm excited for it.

Guy Branum

#11. What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.

Tibullus

#12. The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .

John Maynard Keynes

#13. A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.

Tibullus

#14. Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

Herbert Marcuse

#15. The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.

Tibullus

#16. How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!

Tibullus

#17. no stereotype can explain why and how, in the six months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a technique to kill Jews in large numbers was developed and some one million Jews were murdered.

Timothy Snyder

#18. the fact is that the only difference between a rut and a grave is about five feet.

Claire Middleton

#19. Esteem all things that are good.

Tibullus

#20. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle.

#21. Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

Tibullus

#22. How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude.

Tibullus

#24. Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.

Tibullus

#25. I wanted so badly to be seen, yet my pride prevented me from obviously asking to be seen. I did not want to be seen by demand, but rather by their choosing.

Magenta Periwinkle