Publilius Syrus Quotes

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

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• Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Long
  • Money
  • Movie

• The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • You
  • Will
  • Lie

• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Awesome
  • Moss

• A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Time
  • Long
  • Food

• Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Heaven
  • Human Nature

• Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Enough
  • See

• There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Nothing
  • Worse
  • Humour

• In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Age
  • Culture

• We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.

  

  Rand Beers
  • May
  • Driving
  • Suicide

• The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Success
  • Romantic

• I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Long
  • Know
  • Talent

• One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

  

  Gary Neville
  • You
  • Year
  • Poor

• How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Important
  • Business

• I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism.

  

  Ingmar Bergman

• When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• 'You drink only sparingly. Is the beer too thin?''No at all. I merely wish to keep my wits about me. It would not do if both of us became addled, and later woke up in doubt as to who was who.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Doubt

• America is the paradise of lawyers.

  

  Lawyer
  • America
  • Paradise

• I've been really tryin, babyTryin to hold back these feelings for so longAnd if you feel, like I feel babyCome on, oh come on,Let's get it on.

  

  Marvin Gaye

• Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Soul

• I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Long
  • Smile

• The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

  

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • War
  • Poetry

• I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

  

  Jonathan Ames
  • Worst
  • Source
  • Rumors

• Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.

  

  Michio Kaku
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Should

• There are some remedies worse than the disease.

  

  Publilius Syrus