Fountain Quote by John Aubrey

I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.

— Shaquille O'Neal

“In Montaigne’s redrawn portrait of the adequate, semi-rational human being, it is possible to speak no Greek, fart, change one’s mind after a meal,…

— Alain de Botton

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

— Anonymous

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language…

— Plutarch

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

— Diogenes

“And there you have your Founders and Framers in all their elite glory—the 1 percent of their time. Many spent more than they made.…

— Ed Asner

“Days when I came to flower serenely in Lycée gardens long ago, and read my Apuleius keenly, but spared no glance for Cicero.”

— Alexander Pushkin

“APORIA  (APO'RIA) n.s. [a figure in rhetorick, by which the speaker shews, that he doubts where to begin for the multitude of matter, or what…

— Samuel Johnson

“Aristotle says clearly, and St. Thomas follows him, that corporeal similitudes excite the memory more easily than the naked notions themselves.”

— John Crowley

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

— John Crowe Ransom

“Morrie.. had developed his own culture - long before he got sick. He read books to find new ideas for his classes, visited with…

— Mitch Albom