Top 434 Quotes & Sayings by Euripides - Page 5

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

God gives each his due at the time allotted.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

Account no man happy till he dies.

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

There is no evil as terrible as a woman.

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

There is safety in numbers.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

The childless escape much misery.

A woman should always stand by a woman.

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

Youth holds no society with grief.

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

Dead men have no victory.

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

An ally need not own the land he helps.

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

The brave venture anything.

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.