Peter Brodie quotes

“One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."”
-- Peter Brodie

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“What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.”
-- Peter Brodie

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“What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.”
-- Peter Brodie

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“There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.”
-- Peter Brodie

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“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.”

“Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.”

“When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.”

“TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.”

“The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.”

“Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.”

“We're all working with one power, one law, it's Attraction”

“All things are possible to God and to you in God-consciousness.”

“What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.46, Penguin

“One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all.”