Quotes About Augurs

The decision to incentivise savings for pension funds augurs well for infrastructure financing and retirement planning.

'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

the augurs' task was to consult the gods by observing the sky, birds, their flight and their cries, but also lightning and thunder.

it was impossible to imagine a religion that was distinct from civic-mindedness, and therefore a clergy marginal to the Republic. Members of the big colleges (pontiffs, augurs and the chief priest himself) were elected by the people

But decent augurs grin behind their masks. They never preach to each other.

Roman augurs and Chinese mandarins both knew well that when rumors about monstrous beings became more than usually common in a community, that might indicate rising stresses that could take a more overt political form later on. The same logic still applies today; the parts of America most caught up in the cattle mutilation panic of the mid-1970s, for example, were exactly those areas where radical anti-government activism took off most rapidly a decade later.

Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.

I was a fairy-minded kid, a comic book kid, and I had a bad habit of looking for augurs and protectors where there were none.