I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.
Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.
He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat. , Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit. ]
A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them. [Lat. , Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere. ]
At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperial merriment. Caligula, wiping the tears from his eyes, managed to gasp, "You'll never guess! It suddenly occurred to me that I had only to give a single nod, and both your throats would be cut on the spot. "
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and steep fines on large corporations-who have even larger lawyers-is rare.