Julius Caesar Scaliger quotes

“The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.”
-- Julius Caesar Scaliger

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“One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.”

“Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.”

“You think this necklace is a tailsman?" "Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.”

“The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.”

“The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.”

“The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.”

Source : "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

“All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.”

“Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.”

Source : Amandla @amandlastenberg, twitter.com. April 28, 2015.

“Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.”

“No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.”