A liar should have a good memory.
"Marcus Fabius Quintilianus" was a Roman Empire/Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in Middle ages/medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as "Quintilian" (), although the alternate spellings of "Quintillian" and "Quinctilian" are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts.http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-f=1_6721279&N-fa=5997373&N-p=62584516&N-play=0&N-s=1_6721279&N-u=1_789406
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous educators! More Quintilian on Wikipedia.Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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