A Quote by Publilius Syrus

He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

Publilius Syrus

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Neptune Shipwreck Suffers Twice

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

Publilius Syrus

Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers Ever unjustly, all the integrators who love white folks, was unjustly kicked out of Washington, they've been deprived of education and poverty throughout the country.

Muhammad Ali

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

Epictetus

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

Mitch McConnell

There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.

R. C. Sproul

Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

Mike Brown

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

H. L. Mencken

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

Karl Kraus

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

Beilby Porteus

He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

George Herbert

The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.

Baltasar Gracian

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

Og Mandino

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Don Shula

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You speak horse?" Hazel asked. "Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mean a Neptune thing." "Then you and Arion should get along fine," Hazel said. "He's a son of Neptune too." Percy turned pale. "Excuse me?