Virgil Quotes

They can do all because they think they can.

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Fortune sides with he who dares

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

Love conquers all things.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

Persistent work triumphs.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

From a single crime know the nation.

To have died once is enough.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

Trust one who has gone through it.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.

None but himself can be his parallel.

Endure and save yourselves for happier times.

The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.