A Quote by Cato the Elder

Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen. — © Cato the Elder
Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.

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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.
[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
There is not a morsel of evidence backing up any of the claims or any of the narratives or any of the premises that make up today's news. There is not a morsel of evidence on anybody. There's not a morsel of evidence on Flynn! On Manafort! On Carter Page! There's no evidence on Trump! And yet the reporting goes on. Convicted of high crimes already without a trial. It's a great piece by Eli Lake.
Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.
One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.
Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.
Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.
Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.
My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.
'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse.
After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.
Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.
I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.
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