Augustus Quotes

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Practice, the master of all things.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling

Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

Not the labors of my hands Can fulfill thy Law's demands: Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears forever flow, All for Sin could not atone: Thou must save, and Thou alone!

I am a man of my word.

Make haste cautiously.

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.

I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?

I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.