Tacitus Quotes
More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
Quotes to Explore
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.
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What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.
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There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
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Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?
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Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!
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Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.
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I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
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Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
