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No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH Me and my dad talked and he wanted me to go out for a sport. I was too short (5-foot-6) for basketba...
CHANDLER JONES The basic globe was there. One generation did that. All we have done since then is refine that globe...
SETH SHOSTAK The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment...
ALBERT J. NOCK Just the globe. It's too dangerous on the street.
SERGE CORONAS One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll!
MARCUS MAYO No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big!
KATHRYN LASKY There was a bit of youthful enthusiasm going on. But they were all way too deep and I came out in se...
MARK SKAIFE Robert Kapilow is a born teacher, an enthusiast who can think on his feet, a 110 percent believer in...
THE BOSTON GLOBE Greens all over the globe will need to develop the facilities of democracy for voters, workers, cons...
RALPH NADER Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin –...
ROBERT HARRIS Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why ...
DARIN STRAUSS Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to c...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We went under all these bridges, and Brad liked this one, the Pont de Alexander III, because it was ...
BETSY COMPERRY I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone...
EDWARD ALBEE Human shapes, interferences, troubles, and joys were all as if they were not, and there seemed to be...
THOMAS HARDY Today's collaborative technologies are presenting a real challenge for patent law, ... and for the k...
ADAM JAFFE Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
GELETT BURGESS All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the v...
INUIT SONG A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

[Alexander's tombstone epit...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT The world itself is too small for the covetous.
UNKNOWN I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we...
CHUCK DARBY notoriety that has spread all over the globe.
IRON MAIDEN The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for ...
JOHN KEATS It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.
GEORGE CARLIN These companies are too big for dial-up, but too small for dedicated access.
GRANT SMITH America is too great for small dreams.
RONALD REAGAN It's special to block for Shaun Alexander.
MACK STRONG a notoriety that has spread all over the globe.
MARILYN MANSON Don't despise the little steps you know you can take every day. There are tiny miracles in each and ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
JENNIFER NIVEN The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
JIMMY BRESLIN The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.
ARTHUR POWELL DAVIES I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.
BRAD GREY South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
JAMES L. PETIGRU My wife just saw one of her favorite stars [Alexander] and I had to go get an autograph for her.
ANTHONY WILLIAMS One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.
EVELYN LAUDER In religion, India is the only millionaire - the One land that all men desire to see, and having see...
MARK TWAIN Already he [humanity] is physically antique in this robot world he has created. All that sustains hi...
LOREN EISELEY [David Murray, the elder by four minutes, never lets his younger sibling forget he is smarter and mo...
DAVID MURRAY The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they wer...
JOHN MUIR What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small ...
P. J. O'ROURKE The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful ...
LOUISE BROWN They seemed too arrogant. They seemed like they were here to conquer.
JISOO LEE Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Butcher .. how much responsibility does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small E...
JOHN BOYD ORR It's impossible to get more than one season out of kid's boots. They're too big one year, perfect at...
JOE CUTTS I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia.
ADDISON TIMLIN All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought
JOSEPH JOUBERT All for all, always.
MARTHA N. BECK Alexander shifted in my arms. God, he was so small, and from the giddy looks on my father's and Ashl...
KATIE MCGARRY It just seemed like we were trying too hard against Michigan. We obviously didn't come out and do wh...
EMILY HOWARD Be wise do not exhaust all your strength during your youthful days,for you will need your strength m...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have cust...
JEAN-MARIE MESSIER In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that...
ARRIAN One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
MARY RENAULT One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?
BRUCE BAWER Be youthful.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA One small step for Pedro, one giant step for the Mets.
RICK PETERSON It seemed like we quit for a three-minute stretch. Quit might be too strong. We seemed to be stunned...
MIKE POINDEXTER The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page ...
MATT TAIBBI Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE This is the first school I applied to. I was looking for a very specific school, one that wants to w...
BRENDA MYERS One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabit...
WILLIAM GODWIN Not that you're not youthful. You're very youthful, John. But he looks like he's 18!
WHOOPI GOLDBERG The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too i...
MICK EBELING Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
ROBERT ELIOT The clothes that we wear are definitely authentic '70s crap. It's all polyester, and it's all four s...
MILA KUNIS There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have...
FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Appreciate youthful exuberance.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I...
KAILASH KHER A lot of people make the mistake of having a lampshade that is too big or too small for the base.
MARGIE WILLIS Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or to...
BOBBY SANDS Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is ...
MICHELE BACHMANN Jane Heard.
ONE The quantity of riches one must earn can be compared to the shoes one wears; if too small, they caus...
ATHARVA VEDA Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
LAMAR ALEXANDER Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
STUDS TERKEL We were expecting this library for a long time. The reading center was too small for the kids.
CLAUDINA ESTRADA Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured.
"Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.
CASSANDRA CLARE Today, one of the most important means of spreading diseases around the globe is air travel.
DAVID HEYMANN Youthful exuberance is splendid.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS It is the fact that we are all different is that which makes us all the same.
JAIME CONTRERAS Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren'...
JENNIFER NIVEN Being the personal protector, blocker for Shaun Alexander and then look what Shaun has done.
MIKE HOLMGREN We think the U.S. looks one of the the most overpriced property share markets around the globe.
JACK FOSTER I had a lot of positive things happen for each athlete. And the kids seemed really happy about the r...
TERESA ADAMS What if Alexander Graham Bell's name were Alexander Graham Siren? The phone wouldn't ring, it would ...
GEORGE CARLIN It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on th...
ZADIE SMITH Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just...
KAREN MILLS He was living in a dark, small, wet efficiency. He seemed unaware of his surroundings.
LOUIE FERNANDEZ

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JUVENAL What is the use of your pedigrees?
JUVENAL Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
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JUVENAL It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
JUVENAL Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
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JUVENAL A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
JUVENAL Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
JUVENAL Revenge is a dish best served cold
JUVENAL Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
JUVENAL Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
JUVENAL You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
JUVENAL A healthy mind in a healthy body.
JUVENAL Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)
JUVENAL It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
JUVENAL There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
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JUVENAL Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL Be gentle with the young.
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JUVENAL Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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JUVENAL Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
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JUVENAL difficile est saturam non scribere
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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.]
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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...
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa For...
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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.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
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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.]
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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...
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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...
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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) Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH