Virgil Quotes

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

We have to thank God for this retirement.

We can't all do everything.

Each draws to his best-loved.

And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Trust the expert. -Experto credite

Even virtue is fairer in a fair body.

Thus shall you go to the stars.

Fear reveals baseborn souls!

You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento

Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.

Fury itself supplies arms.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

I shudder when relating it.

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames

But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing.

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.

There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.

I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised.

My dad raced motocross back in the day, and I've always enjoyed watching it. That sport intrigues me.

After my career is over, I want to have a dirt bike track at my house and ride.

I would probably keep it old school with The Isley Brothers. Their music relaxes me and I can listen to it all day.

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste.

My favorite older movie of all-time is "Scarface." Al Pacino played that role so well. It's a longer movie, but I like it.