Decimius Magnus Ausonius Quotes

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

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• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Study
  • Manners
  • Delicate

• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Smiles
  • Wrinkles
  • Indicate

• To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me. I have stopped working 24 hours a day like I was before, and I rush back home to see him whenever I can after work. That always makes my day.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • World
  • Work
  • Home

• Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Bold
  • Fearless
  • Arrogant

• God blessed us, ... It rained but we're still out here. This is what life is about. I'm glad I could get out here to put some smiles on these kids' faces.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Life
  • God
  • Kids

• The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Together
  • Devil
  • Plans

• The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Ambitious

• But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people - first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Daily

• In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Situation
  • Cases
  • Arrogant

• Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

  

  William Watson
  • Arrogant
  • Brass
  • Reeds

• I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Canvas
  • Claims
  • Arrogant

• Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

  

  John Milton
  • Reason
  • Flow
  • Smiles

• Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Smiles
  • Directs
  • Admirers

• Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Free
  • Fortune
  • Smiles

• I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Rules
  • Hollywood
  • Arrogant

• When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Sad
  • Smiles

• Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Anger
  • Smiles
  • Armor

• I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Silence
  • Sadness
  • Intensity

• The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.

  

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith
  • Sky
  • Violent
  • Smiles

• I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic?

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Me
  • Always
  • Thanks

• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Giving
  • Food
  • Morning

• Borrow from your friends, and when they ain't got any more money, make new friends.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Money
  • Friends
  • New Friends

• Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

  

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius
  • Arrogant
  • Smiles
  • Dejected