Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

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• Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Universe
  • Brain
  • Humans

• Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Wise

• I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Figure Out

• If we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Fate
  • Doomed

• Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Form
  • Communism
  • Catholicism

• Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Thank God
  • Liquor
  • Self-Medicate

• I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.

  

  Sean Bean
  • Different
  • Focus
  • Individual

• Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Sometimes
  • Actors
  • Roles

• Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Source
  • Faults
  • Egotism

• People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

  

  Caryl Churchill
  • Evil
  • Feet
  • Faults

• At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Years
  • Sport
  • Contributed

• Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

  

  Catullus
  • Faults
  • Wallets