Dioscorides De Materia Quotes

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]? ~ Christine De Pizan

For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom. ~ Janwillem Van De Wetering

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento."
(roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual") ~ Miguel De Unamuno

Casa de Jackson No gold-plated throne for guests Seriously, dude? ~ Rick Riordan

Music revives the recollections it would appease. ~ Madame De Stael

The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow. ~ Alain De Botton

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Rather than being love-blinded, it is in love that I can see, really see. ~ Marlena De Blasi

Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate. ~ Aubrey De Grey

Propulsion, spewing out smoke, and three-wheeler taxis, ~ Edmund De Waal

Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it. ~ Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Suenos. Dulces Suenos.
He must be painting upstairs.
I can feel it.
I remember when his father was just a baby and I called her Mama for the first time and she became Mama for all of us; Mama de la casa and his father would wake up in the middle of the night and scream in his crib and nothing would make him stop, nada, and Mama would get so exhausted she would turn her back to me and cry in her pillow.
I would smooth her hair-it was black, Basilio, as black as an olive-and I would turn on the radio (electricity, Basilio, in the middle of the night), to maybe calm the baby and listen to something besides the screaming.
Mama liked the radio, Basilio, and we listened while your father cried-cantante negra, cantante de almas azules-and it made us feel a little better, helped us make it through.
I had to get up early to catch the streetcar to the shipyard, but when the crying finally stopped sometimes the sun would be ready to pop and Mama's breathing would slow down and her shoulders would move like gentle waves, sleeping but still listening, like I can hear her now on this good bed, and Basilio-Mira, hombre, I will not tell you this again-if I moved very close and kissed her shoulders, she would turn to face me and we would have to be quiet Basilio, under the music, very, very quiet....
So this I want to know, Basilio.
This, if you want to live on Macon Street for another minute.
Can you paint an apple baked soft in the oven, an apple ~ Rafael Alvarez

One may outwit another, but not all the others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year. ~ Miguel De Icaza

Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me ... having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it. ~ Michael J. Fox

It is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back. ~ Robert De Castella

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe. ~ Alain De Botton

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. ~ Ferdinand De Saussure

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, I don't want to be just another blade of grass. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people with whom the world is crowded, shows that a man has not a good temper himself. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul? ~ Francis De Sales

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. ~ Honore De Balzac

Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours. ~ Alain De Botton

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

The whole military power of the State is at the disposal of the Governor. He is the commander of the militia, and head of the armed force. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever. ~ Alain De Botton

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Temperance adds zest to pleasure. ~ Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld