Virtutem Quotes

#1. The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
[Lat., Semita certe
Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

Juvenal

#2. The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.]

Juvenal

#3. Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.
[Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#4. His father looked wistful. 'And you don't feel anticlimatic?'
What's that?'
Somewhat the opposite of elated.'
What's elated again?'
Good feelings. That is to say, very good. You can feel, can't you? That's what I'm driving at. You don't ever wonder ... where feeling went?

Ali Shaw

#5. Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

Bill Gates

#6. As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake.

Ed Yong

#7. I mean if you two were to make love, that would be gay. Two men touching each other physically and emotionally ... erotically caressing each other ... on the hood of a car ... or the back of a movie theater ...

Kristen Schaal

#8. No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Steven Wright

#9. Katie shrugged. "I took a detour." "Damn it, Katie. You need to be more careful. You're pregnant, remember?" "Just a second ago you were talking about jamming a spyglass up my hoo-ha. Now you're going to act protective?

Ann Charles

#10. A comfortable rut and a grave are very much alike. The only real difference is the dimensions.

Ralph Compton

#11. I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!

Kevin Keegan

#12. Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

Sean Hannity

#13. If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

Frederick Delius

#14. Let not the jolly be alone in the world, for they shall talk about the future and snag to do the exercises.

Auliq Ice