Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic

It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse

The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs regret. The origin and outset of the American Republic contain lessons of which posterity ought not to be deprived: and happily there never was a case in which every interesting incident could be so accurately preserved.

Most of what I’ve written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you’re going through puberty.

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire’s bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.

Roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.

We’re in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people’s musical taste.

The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest

• In a period of emergency, there is a normal inclination to go to the author.

So ended the formative period in [his] life, the single year that set in motion all the clockwork of his future identity. Thinking back on it, I wonder if it isn’t the same for all of us. Adulthood is a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

In the periods of my career when I stopped passing the ball forward or when I stopped looking for the risky pass that might open up a defence, the consequences were the same. The manager stopped picking me. I got back into the team when I went back to doing it the way he wanted.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

We’re only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren’t enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

Defeat is not an option. Period. The End.

In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope—nothing of man

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late ’40’s and early ’50’s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival

Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life

First name Mister; middle name period; last name T.

That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured

No. I’m just saying that, if you took up close pictures of my vagina while I was on my period, it would be disturbing but it doesn’t make it wrong.