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Quotations
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do. — Golda Meir, 1898-1978, Israeli Prime Minister 10 likes | |
You become young at sixty. Unfortunately this is too late. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 5 likes | |
You get a wonderful view from the point of no return. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 5 likes | |
Even now we can still turn back. But once we have crossed that little bridge, everything must be decided by arms. — Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, Roman general & Consul (before crossing river Rubicon, in 49 BC) 4 likes | |
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. | |
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. | |
I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave. | |
Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but the body when lost may never be acquired again. | |
We must go on, because we can’t turn back. | |
Man knows what he destroys only after destroying it. |
Latin Quotes
The die is cast. Alea jacta est. — Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, Roman general & Consul (when crossing Rubicon river to attack Rome) 46 likes |
Quotes in Verse
As you go, you open a path, and looking back you see a path that you will never walk again. |
Ancient Greek
Only in death there is no remedy. Θανάτου μόνον ουκ έστιν επανόρθωμα. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 16 likes | |
Act as if every action is the last action of your life. Ποριείς δε, αν ως εσχάτην του βίου εκάστην πράξιν ενεργής. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations II, 5 7 likes | |
The die is cast. Ο κύβος ερρίφθη. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 4 likes | |
Let the die be cast. Ανερρίφθω κύβος. (similar to the phrase Alea iacta est by Julius Caesar according to Plutarch) 3 likes |
Proverbs
Don't cry over spilled milk 3 likes | |
Let bygones be bygones. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
The present is terrifying because it is irreversible and because it is of iron. — from the film Alphaville (1965) 5 likes |