Top 434 Quotes & Sayings by Euripides - Page 6

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

To the worker, God himself lends aid.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

None wise dares hopeless venture.

Woman is woman's natural ally.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

Time will bring healing.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

The God knows when to smile.

And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

Time cancels young pain.

Delusive hope still points to distant good.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

Virtue proceeds through effort.

God helps him who strives hard.

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.