An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.
Decimus Laberius
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What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
DECIMUS LABERIUS The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
DECIMUS LABERIUS No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He who is first in time has the prior right.
DECIMUS LABERIUS From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials
of impotence.
DECIMUS LABERIUS Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
DECIMUS LABERIUS To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.
DECIMUS LABERIUS And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever.
DECIMUS LABERIUS Hard cases make bad law.
DECIMUS LABERIUS No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.
DECIMUS LABERIUS It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it
is useless.
DECIMUS LABERIUS The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a
saint.
DECIMUS LABERIUS As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to
you.
DECIMUS LABERIUS Something like that is just uncalled for. We want to get a good, positive experience for the kids th...
BOB TATE That was uncalled for,
BOB MCGRATH Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC When two people are on the path of confrontation…an innocuous comment is taken as an accusation. A...
GIRDHAR JOSHI A word of praise is an accusation in disguise.
MARIANA FULGER For the mayor to come out and make this statement, it's uncalled for.
ANTONIO GONZALEZ Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
FIELDING Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDING Be positive as positive thoughts become your word, your words become your behavior, your behavior be...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We deny this accusation. It is a schizophrenic statement from an unstable mind.
ALI ABDU The legend of Decimus Croome seemed to expand like a parasitic beast feeding off the lifeblood of th...
KEVIN PURDY The breath of accusation kills an innocent name, and leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, which ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Mike made an accusation in closed session, and Dr. Thompson replied,
DAVID KELLEY People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
ELIAS CANETTI Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divin...
BEDIüZZAMAN SAID NURSî Whenever you have this level of incompetence, that's uncalled for. Somebody's head should roll, peri...
PAUL ASFOUR I was defence minister for a few years,
KIM BEAZLEY To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, you...
MALCOLM X I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointe...
BOB AINSWORTH For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giv...
ECCLESIASTES 7:12 ...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evi...
CAROL TAVRIS Defence is first for Greg Prymack,
STEVE PRICE It was uncalled for. I've got a few things in my mind I'd like to say to him -- but I won't.
CASEY BLAKE Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
BROOKE SHIELDS A thought becomes a word
A word becomes an action
An action becomes a movement
A movement becomes a ...
ANGELINA BRANTLEY The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a lo...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.
SILVIO PELLICO For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you ...
BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER The tone of campaigning in the last week has gone sour. There's been mudslinging and some uncalled f...
ABDULSALAMI ABUBAKAR The Senior Bowl backed off of him, which I thought was totally uncalled for; there was no reason for...
GARY WICHARD Though it was close to midnight, Gyeong-hee sensed hundreds of figures hovering at those windows, pe...
BANDI We know we are a nasty defence. We know we are a good defence, but last year we didn't have enough t...
JEREMIAH TROTTER Love can make even nice people do awful things.
JUDE DEVERAUX That is a ridiculous accusation by an irate landlord who is obviously upset that his ride on the gra...
SPENCE JACKSON Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.
UNKNOWN Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to sa...
BIBLE It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
CHRYSTIA FREELAND When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you lov...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Members are deeply distressed across political lines because of the remarks that have been because t...
GURUDAS DASGUPTA When a man's learning becomes stagnant he becomes an expert otherwise an intelligent!
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN One morning a man walked along a beach covered with thousands of starfish that had washed up during ...
POSITIVE PROMOTIONS The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I think our defence probably is a little overlooked, but pitching and defence are going to win you a...
RYAN LANGERHANS Unless it's mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it's a waste of your time. There are too many medio...
DREAMS FOR AN INSOMNIAC Ignorance for the recipient either leaves a man non resilient or brilliant in his defence
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL The best way to defend is to attack,because by attacking you are also defending your territory.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"
"More or less." Brienne answered.
Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. Leadership is about making and maintaining a positive change. True leaders do not conform to the lim...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an a...
BOB COSTAS Sadness is also a kind of defence.
IVO ANDRIC Defence, not defiance.
MOTTO An eye for an eye may make the whole world blind, but a punishment you feel makes it all the more re...
DAN BASS It's uncalled for when people act like that. You can play hard within the rules. You don't have to b...
JAKE SCOTT But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, ...
FORD MADOX FORD Arab Muslims need to be part of the creative process, and they just aren't. When (a vilified religio...
JACK SHAHEEN An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.
PETER DIAMANDIS David solidifies our defence,
GOLDEN BEARS Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the govern...
LYSANDER SPOONER His blue eyes frosted. 'Are you attempting to tell me my duties, sir?'
'No. But I'm havin...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There is no such thing as a successful defence.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON Especially against a defence like that, it feels great,
RONNIE BROWN Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON I think that is totally uncalled for and inaccurate because the staff here is more than willing to w...
GRANT TOLBERT If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
TREY SMITH Defence is our best attack.
JAY WEATHERILL Each one of those drops becomes an impassable barrier for fish,
SCOTT HOLMES When it doesn't happen for 20 years it becomes an event.
JOEL FISCHMAN He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
PROVERB He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation
PROVERB I think it was uncalled for. You've got a bar full of customers that pay $80 a ticket to watch these...
SAM ABRAHAM Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
IMELDA MARCOS The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Th...
SIMON WIESENTHAL Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life ...
JOHN ANDRE It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER
More Decimus Laberius
What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
DECIMUS LABERIUS The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
DECIMUS LABERIUS No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He who is first in time has the prior right.
DECIMUS LABERIUS From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials
of impotence.
DECIMUS LABERIUS Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
DECIMUS LABERIUS To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
DECIMUS LABERIUS He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.
DECIMUS LABERIUS And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever.
DECIMUS LABERIUS Hard cases make bad law.
DECIMUS LABERIUS No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.
DECIMUS LABERIUS It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it
is useless.
DECIMUS LABERIUS The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a
saint.
DECIMUS LABERIUS As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to
you.
DECIMUS LABERIUS Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands
for the whole.
[Lat., Incipe quidq...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again
begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
[Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many.
[Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
[Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas....
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted
is a more agreeable favor.
[Lat...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there
is no witness.
[Lat., Turpe quid ...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not
despond.
[Lat., Si fortuna juvat, ca...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Fear not death; fear not having lived.
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS If idiots can’t think for themselves, then what is a movement of idiots?
A herd followi...
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS Love yourself’ the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing ...
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for
your country.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Father of his country.
[Lat., Pater pariae.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I only feel, but want the power to paint.
[Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or
the display of family portraits, O P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) You are not to do evil that good may come of it.
[Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogita...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One
bears a cross for his crime; another...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan.
[Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroqu...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of a...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous
to the author of the crime. This...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
[Lat., Semper et infirmi est anim...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
[Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
[Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
[...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quem...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
[Lat., Dives fieri qui vult
Et c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
[Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa
For...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat.,...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Satire is what closes Saturday night.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) It is difficult not to write satire.
[Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
[Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
[Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselv...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when
you, though an old man, do worse thi...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accompli...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) With thumb turned.
[Lat., Verso pollice.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.
[Lat., Dociles imitandis
Turpib...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body.
[Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
[Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in i...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin,
Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' w...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eag...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
[Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
[Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please
children and be made the subject of de...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of
Latin.
[Lat., Omnia Graece!
C...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not
exceed proper bounds, but be in proport...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For He, who gave this vast machine to roll,
Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul;
Tha...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an
ignorant friend and the face of a deform...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.
[Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria
P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
[Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
[Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)