Plautus Quotes

Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet.

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• The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Mean
  • Achievement
  • Canada

• I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • People
  • Best
  • Politics

• If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Write
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Real
  • Giving
  • Support

• I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Been
  • Four
  • Seasons

• You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Travel
  • Hands

• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • School
  • Uncle
  • Medical

• Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Think
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Dream
  • Discover
  • My Own

• The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Day

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• I want to see America set the example to the world both in our domestic and foreign relations of magnanimity.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • America

• The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True

• Ideas kill people.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People

• My mother was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. My mother’s alive and well, but only because of America. Without America’s military, the world would be in deep… fill-in-the-blank. I’m forever grateful for that.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • World
  • She
  • America

• Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason.

  

  Edward Coke
  • Life
  • Law

• A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Embrace

• There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.

  

  Washed Out
  • Dream
  • Past
  • Movies

• Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to assert its authority when presidents decide to send American soldiers into harm's way.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • American
  • War
  • Support

• Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Fun
  • Sick
  • Missing

• I myself am going to try to tone down some of my rhetoric, and I would invite my Democrat friends - and they are friends - to do likewise.

  

  Chris Collins
  • Friends

• Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet.

  

  Plautus