2. The act of quoting.
Eheu fugaces labuntur anni. "Alas, the fleeting years glide by." As seen in Horace's Odes.
Fugit hora. "The hour flies." or "Time flies." As seen in Ovid.
Fugit irreparabile tempus. "We cannot stop time in its tracks." or "Irrecoverable time flies away." Tempus fugit is a shortened version of this proverb (or motto), as seen in Vergil.
Fugite fures omnes. "Fly (Flee) all you thieves."
Ponder or think about the following over a period of time.
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another wit.
The Magna Carta: England’s first reign check.
The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow it from them.
The Five Animal Stages of the Life of a Man are
- spring chicken
- little lamb
- young lion
- fat cat
- old goat
To come at four for tea."
Whatever happened to that word
That once was known as "me"?
Egotists are always me-deep in conversation.
Don't be jumping to confusions.
The mind—better read than dead!
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
The greatest mental risks we face today are becoming disabled, dying too soon, living too long.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing them.
Words—so innocent and powerless as they are when standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of the one who knows how to combine them.