Vatum Quotes

#1. Good-bye to the lies of the poets.
[Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

Ovid

#2. Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

Daryl Hannah

#3. I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

Miriam Toews

#4. Least said is soon disavowed.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

Dave Beard

#6. Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Donald Hall

#7. Cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

Fanny Kemble

#8. Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.

John C. Maxwell

#9. The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws ... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

Vint Cerf

#10. E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

Alexander Pope