A Quote by Publilius Syrus

He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.

Publilius Syrus

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.

Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

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

Virgil

Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.

Catherynne M. Valente

If you try to pull too much power through too soon, you will injure yourself.

Frederick Lenz

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Aesop

Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness.

Leon Brown

By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.

Spencer W. Kimball

The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.

Harry Shearer

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

C. S. Lewis

We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

Julia Ward Howe

They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay!

Suzanne Collins

Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains the Abbot Dorotheus. His will has coincided with God's will, and whatever he asks, he will receive.

Tito Colliander

The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.