Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. - Horace

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I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.

Horace

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

Esteem, Men, Readily, Remember, Ridicule, Willingly

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

Adversity, Blood, Courage, Life, Live, Splendor

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Beautiful, Fear, Point, View, Views

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

Cage, Cages, Let, Whistled, Wisdom, Wise

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Art, Liar, Liars, Like, Lying, Writes

Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]

Despair, Desperandum, Nil

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William Shakespeare

Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.

Grace, Herbs, Small, Weed, Weeds

Sinead O'Connor

I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.

Anywhere, Artist, Found, Honor, Pitch, Thinking

John Bolton

The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.

Investigation, Like, Real, Taken, War

Ram Dass

It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.

Know, Light, Men, Miles, Simple, Walk

Veronica Roth

Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich

Eat, Mashed Potatoes, Potatoes, Sandwich, Sandwiches, Tell