Plautus Quotes

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

Do not change horses in mid stream unless horse lies to you and the stream is on fire.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the lot, and suddenly all of this food showed up on our set. I was, like, 'What is this?' And they said, 'Oh, they cancelled this other show right before their lunch.' And I said, 'Throw that food away! We don't want to touch that food! There's no way I'm eating it!' So I never root for anybody, because it could happen to you in two seconds.

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.

Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

Somebody bring me some water/can’t you see I’m burning alive.

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?

Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.