"Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]"

-- Horace

#Money Quotes #Proud Quotes #Birth Quotes

“If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?”
“Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?”

Source : Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.124, Macmillan
“John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.”
“Some dreams are best not to wake up from.”

Source : "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda". Judit Kawaguchi, The Japan Times, January 16, 2007.
“These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most delicate and decisive period of formation, that, namely, of adolescence; and in gymnastic exercises and deportment special care must be had of Christian modesty in young women and girls which is so gravely impaired by any kind of exhibition in public.”
“If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.”
“I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.”
“Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.”

Source : "Ausonius: Books I-XVII". Book by Decimus Magnus Ausonius, Paulinus (of Pella.), transl. by Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White, p. 165, 1919.

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