Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

What is the use of your pedigrees?

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

No one every suddenly became depraved.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.