Plautus Quotes

Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.

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• The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • United States

• TV's been good to me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Good
  • Me
  • Been

• Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Horse

• I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Music
  • Church
  • Inspiration

• I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Never
  • Hollywood
  • Packing

• Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • You
  • Stand

• I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Job
  • Lucky

• Islam is about finding your own space.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Space
  • Islam
  • Finding

• The more unsettling the more I feel at home.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Home
  • Feel
  • More

• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genius
  • Intelligence

• Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • High
  • Taken
  • Interest

• I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Wear
  • Michael
  • Stuart

• I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Age
  • Earth

• We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Fighting

• 'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • World
  • Men

• Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh.

  

  Cole Porter
  • World
  • Fool

• Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?

  

  Al Meyerhoff
  • Government
  • Trust
  • Carcinogen

• What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Know
  • Learn

• Pleasant, the heath when it is green; Also pleasant, the salt marsh for cattle. Pleasant, the time when calves draw milk; Also pleasant, foamy horsemanship.

  

  Taliesin
  • Time
  • Green

• Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Good
  • Party
  • Emotional

• The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Power
  • Way
  • Difference

• Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.

  

  Plautus