All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. – Ovid

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Life
category

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. – Winston Churchill

Category:
Life

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer

Category:
Life

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray. – Proverb

Category:
Life

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. – Albert Camus

Category:
Life

Random Quotes

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Congress

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. – Daniel H. Wilson

Category:
movies

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
Wise Words

You cant have it both ways. You cant tell me that youre taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, Bring me home some bacon. The pig has been picked clean. – Rand Paul

Category:
Government