Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.
VIRGILEvery man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
More Virgil Quotes
-
-
A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
VIRGIL -
No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
VIRGIL -
She has a human face and as far as the groin she is a girl with lovely breasts, but below she is a monstrous sea creature, her womb full of wolves
VIRGIL -
Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.
VIRGIL -
Trust one who has gone through it.
VIRGIL -
Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
VIRGIL -
Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
VIRGIL -
When gods are contrary they stand by no one.
VIRGIL -
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
VIRGIL -
Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
VIRGIL -
Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.
VIRGIL -
If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
VIRGIL -
Fortune favors the bold.
VIRGIL -
Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
VIRGIL -
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
VIRGIL






