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

• You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.

  

  Katie MacAlister
  • Place
  • More
  • Again

• There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Years

• This is being transparently done to promote a very poor site . . . in order to accommodate the industry.

  

  Arjun Makhijani
  • Industry
  • Promote
  • Accommodate

• Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

  

  Dean Dillon
  • Good
  • Constantly
  • Demanded

• The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Purpose
  • Spiritual
  • Needs

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

  

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius
  • Arrogant
  • Smiles
  • Dejected