Aim Quote by Horace

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

— Horace

If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in…

— Joseph Lister

Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by…

— Charles Babbage

There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]

— Horace

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with…

— Teju Cole

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

— Andre Gide

“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity…

— Christina Engela

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

— Salman Rushdie

There was an attempt on my life.

— Jovenel Moise

“We all perish in our last attempt to live.”

— Robin Hobb

I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

— Peter Storey

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

— Anonymous